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What I'd rather not think about / Jente Posthuma ; translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publisher: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 203 pages 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781914484711
Uniform titles:
  • Waar ik liever niet aan denk. Engelska
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 839.313/7 23/eng/20230410
Other classification:
  • Heeg.01
Online resources: 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.
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First published in Duch as Waar ik liever niet aan denk in 2020.

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.

Translated from the Dutch