The new novel, set in the UK, from the author of the Impac Prize-winning bestseller The Twin. A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She is a lecturer doing some research, and sets about making the farmhouse more homely. When she arrives there are ten geese living in the garden but one by one they disappear. Perhaps it's the work of a local fox. She has fled from an unbearable situation having recently confessed to an affair with one of her students. In Amsterdam, her stunned husband forms a strange partnership with a detective who agrees to...
The new novel, set in the UK, from the author of the Impac Prize-winning bestseller The Twin. A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. Sh...
Poté co jeho bratr-dvojče Henk zahyne při autonehodě, na níž nese spoluvinu jeho snoubenka Riet, osmnáctiletý Helmer je nucen zanechat studií filologie, zastoupit bratra na rodinném statku a smířit se s koloběhem jednotvárného vesnického života. Po mnoha letech se s vyhlídkou na blížící se šedesátku rozhodne vzít zbytek života do vlastních rukou, nemohoucího starého otce, někdejšího vládce rodiny, izoluje v prvním patře statku a dům znovu zařídí podle vlastních představ. Když se však na scéně znenadání objeví Riet a posléze i její syn z...
Poté co jeho bratr-dvojče Henk zahyne při autonehodě, na níž nese spoluvinu jeho snoubenka Riet, osmnáctiletý Helmer je nucen zanechat studií...
June 1969: everyone is gathered to welcome Queen Juliana, the boys and girls waving their flags. As the monarch is getting into her car to leave, little Hanne Kaan and her mother arrive late the Queen strokes the little girl s cheek and regally offers Anna Kaan her hand. It would have been an unforgettable day of celebration if only the baker hadn t been running late with his deliveries and knocked down Hanne with his brand-new VW van. Years later, tending his sister's grave, Jan Kaan is overcome again with grief and silent fury. Isn t it finally time to get to the bottom of things? And...
June 1969: everyone is gathered to welcome Queen Juliana, the boys and girls waving their flags. As the monarch is getting into her car to leave, l...
