THE DETOUR by Gerbrand Bakker, David Colmer (Trans) ( 9780099563679 )

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Title:

THE DETOUR

By:

Gerbrand Bakker, David Colmer (Trans)

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ISBN 10:

0099563673

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9780099563679

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Pub. date:

7 March, 2013

Pages:

240

Description:

A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She has left her husband, having confessed to an affair. In Amsterdam, her stunned husband forms a strange partnership with a detective who agrees to help him trace her. They board the ferry to Hull on Christmas Eve.

Synopsis:

This is the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Impac Dublin Prize. "A wonderful novel. Wise and generous to a fault of all our human failings and frailties". (Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip). A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She has left her husband, having confessed to an affair. In Amsterdam, her stunned husband forms a strange partnership with a detective who agrees to help him trace her. They board the ferry to Hull on Christmas Eve. Back on the farm, a young man out walking with his dog injures himself and stays the night, then ends up staying longer. Yet something is deeply wrong. Does he know what he is getting himself into? And what will happen when her husband and the detective arrive?

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Vintage

Prizes:

Winner of Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014

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