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The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker

by Elinor Teele

May 27th, 2009

Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat as the Dutch landscape in which it’s set. Yet lurking in the white spaces is something one can sense, if not pin down precisely. A moody sense of colors – of grey and blue – of silvery insights breaking through a dull day, and of moving between the modern world and a rural life untethered to minutes.

This article is filed under Agriculture, Fiction Reviews, Netherlands.

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