What I'd Rather Not Think About [electronic resource] : shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
Posthuma, Jente2023
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 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.
In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, 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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Posthuma, Jente, AuthorTimmer Harvey, Sarah, Translator
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[Place of publication not identified] : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 2023
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Jente Posthuma's critically acclaimed first novel, Mensen zonder uitstraling (People Without Charisma), was published in 2016 and nominated for the Dioraphte Literatour Prize, the Hebban Debut Prize, and the ANV Debut Prize. Her second novel, What I'd Rather Not Think About, published in 2020, was equally well received, and was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature 2021.
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9781761385131
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English
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2828459
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