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»Ein tief bewegender Roman über Trauer und Identität. Gekonnt verwebt Jente Posthuma Tragik und Humor.« Jury International Booker Prize

Als Erstes denkt sie immer an ihren Zwillingsbruder: Wenn sie einen neuen Pullover für ihre Sammlung entdeckt. Wenn sie nicht weiß, wie sie ein schlecht laufendes Date elegant beenden kann. Wenn sie Sylvia Plath liest und Virginia Woolf. Oder als sie die einstürzenden Twin Towers in den Fernsehnachrichten sieht. Ihr Zwillingsbruder ist der Mensch, der immer da ist - erst im gemeinsamen Kinderzimmer, dann in der Wohnung auf der anderen...

From the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of What I’d Rather Not Think About comes a darkly humorous novel about multigenerational family dynamics and individuality in Dutch suburbia. An unnamed narrator grows up overshadowed by her unconventional mother, an ex-Jehovah’s witness and former television star with an inferiority complex. Her father is the head of a psychiatric institution, whose only form of parenting is to offer his daughter the same life advice he dispenses to his patients. Reserved and somewhat aloof, he chooses not to intervene when his wife obsesses...

Shortlisted FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?This question lies 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: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely.

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