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Gerbrand Bakker – The TwinWinner of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and eight otherawards. Over 100.000 copies sold in the Netherlands and a further 100.000 in theUK, Germany and France. Filming for the movie of the book starts in 2012.The Twin is a father and son story set in a quintessentially Dutch landscape. This novelchronicles a way of life which has remained resistant to modernity, culturally apart, and yetsplit apart with a kind of romantic longing. Bakker’s characters and his countryside aretangibly real, particularly in their quietness, the silent nature of farming life. The sense ofplace, the brooding atmosphere and the strong characters recall writers such as GrahamSwift, Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy.Rights sold to:UK, Harvill/SeckerGermany, SuhrkampFrance, GallimardUSA, ArchipelagoAustralia, ScribeItaly, IperboreaDenmark, GyldendalNorway, ArnebergFinland, KaristoChina, Shanghai 99Korea, MoonjiIsraël, Hakibbutz HameuchadTurkey, MetisCroatia, FrakturaCzech Republic, PasekaHungary, MagvetoLebanon, All PrintsSerbia, KarposTaiwan, Yuan-LiouFilm rights, Circe FilmsAwarded with:Prix du Roman des LecteursNanterriens 2010Else Otten Preis 2010 fortranslator Andreas EckeInternational IMPAC DublinLiterary Award 2010Prix Initiales 2010Prix Millepages 2009Boekdelenprijs 2008Debutantenprijs 2006Gouden Ezelsoor 2006Best Book Cover 2006FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATIONAVAILABLE‘Though rich in detail, it’s a sparely written story, with the narrator’s odd small cruelties,laconic humor and surprising tenderness emerging through a steady, well-paced,unaffected style. The book convinces from first page to last. The author excels at dialogue,and Helmer’s inner story-telling voice also comes over perfectly.’ – IMPAC Award JuryAuthor: Gerbrand BakkerAuthor: Gerbrand BakkerTitle: The Twin (fiction)Title: Pear Trees Blossom White (fiction)Original title: Boven is het stil Original title: Perenbomen bloeien witPublished: 2006 Published: 2006Size: 264 pages / 75.000 word Size: 138 pages / 32.000 wordsGerbrand Bakker – Pear TreesBlossom WhiteTwins Klaas and Kees and their younger brother Gersonoften play the game they call ‘Black’. The main rule is notto open your eyes. When the brothers drive to Grandmaand Granddad with their dad and their dog called Daan,their lives change in one sudden bang. Gerson loses hisvision in a car crash and will be playing ‘Black’ for the restof his life.Will Gerson be able to adapt to his new life with the helpfrom the dog? And life has also changed considerably forhis father and brothers. But what never will change is thewarmth of the family. This touching story is told throughthree different perspectives, that of the twins, Gerson andthe dog.Rights sold to:Germany, Suhrkamp‘Bakkers reputation is confirmed with this novella. Noother author writes about time, silence and landscape quite as beautiful as he does.’ – DeTelegraaf‘This book breaths the same atmosphere as The Twin. The lightly melancholic style tellsyou something sinister is about to happen next.’ – de Volkskrant