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The hairdresser's son
Bakker, Gerbrand, 1962-2024
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Multi-award winning Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker's phenomenal new novel about grief and the unavoidable power of family ties. Simon never knew his father, Cornelis. When his wife told him she was pregnant, Cornelis packed his bags, and a day later he was dead. Or everyone assumed he was dead; after all, he was on the passenger list of the KLM plane that crashed in Tenerife in 1977. Simon is a hairdresser, just like his father and grandfather before him, but he is not passionate about cutting and shaving. 'Closed' appears on his shop's front door more often than 'open', because every customer is a person, and people suck the energy from him. But there is one client he regularly interacts with: the writer. The writer is looking for a subject for his next book and becomes captivated by the story of Simon's father. As Simon probes the mystery of what happened to his father, a deeply humane and beautifully observed portrait of loneliness emerges in another captivating novel from one of Europe's greatest storytellers.
Main title:
The hairdresser's son / Gerbrand Bakker ; translated by David Colmer.
Author:
Bakker, Gerbrand, 1962-, authorColmer, David, 1960-, translator
Imprint:
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe, 2024.©2024
Collation:
304 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
First published in the Netherlands by Uitgeverij Cossee as "De kapperszoon" in 2022.Translated from the Dutch.
ISBN:
97819225858139781922585813
Dewey class:
839.3137
Language:
EnglishDutch
Added title:
BRN:
563418
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BAKK | Onloan - Due: 31 Jul 2024 |