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The Detour

The Detour

by Gerbrand Bakker (Author), David Colmer (Translator), David Colmer (Translator), Gerbrand Bakker (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

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Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Mar 2013
ISBN 10: 0099563673
ISBN 13: 9780099563679
Book Overview: Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, this is the new novel, set in the UK, from the author of the IMPAC Dublin prize-winning bestseller The Twin

Media Reviews
Simple and devastating -- Daniel Hahn * Independent *
The Detour is a beautiful, oddly moving work of fiction, a quiet read that lingers long in the mind, like the ghosts that linger in our homes, and in the land around us -- John Burnside * Guardian *
This is a novel full of hints and mysteries... [It] will almost certainly keep you routed to your chair until the denouement. -- Connie Bensley * The Spectator *
Quietly astonishing -- Jonathan Gibbs * Times Literary Supplement *
Intelligently thoughtful -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
Author Bio
Gerbrand Bakker worked as a subtitler for nature films before becoming a gardener. His debut novel The Twin won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and will soon be made into a film. The Detour won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.