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Title Statement | What I'd rather not think about / Jente Posthuma ; translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey. |
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Alternative Title(s) | What I would rather not think about |
Author | Posthuma, Jente |
Additional Contributors | Timmer Harvey, Sarah |
Posthuma, Jente | |
Publication | London: Scribe,2023. |
Extent of Item | 203 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781957363356 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06992131 |
General Notes | "First published in Duch as Waar ik liever niet aan denk by Pluim in 2020"--Title page verso. |
Languages | Translated from the Dutch. |
Summary | What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them? These questions lie at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd rather not think about. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives, and of how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely. In brief, precise vignettes, full of surprising humour and gentle melancholy, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves and resents her twin, struggles to understand him, and misses him terribly. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Depressed persons--Fiction |
Families--Fiction | |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |
Psychological fiction | |
Novels |