pick#InternationalBooker2024 Book 4
A brief book about family, love, loss, grief and moving on.
Each section is brief and relates to a particular moment in time and how the narrator felt then.
While the narrator tries to remain close with her twin brother he only wants to escape. Eventually he escapes irrevocably through suicide a decision that leads the narrator reeling.
The ending of the novel was hopeful with the narrator ready to move on.
pickA brief, heartbreaking, hopeful book about a twin left behind in grief when her brother dies by suicide. The first of my Man Booker International shortlist reads. #manbooker
pickThis is my first book from the #InternationalBooker longlist. It is a Dutch one so an easy one for me to purchase and read. It‘s a book about a brother and sister, identical twins. He commits suicide in his thirties. This is no spoiler, the book is about how, despite their closeness, she can‘t protect him from his depression, he can‘t protect her from missing him. It is a sad book, written lightly, which adds to the impact.
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#WeeklyForecast 14/24
I am about to finish Soldier Sailor and have lined up three more books for this week because I‘ll have a long Easter weekend off work. I am looking forward to all three of these. Alex Finlay never disappoints, a J Robert Lennon is always a treat and the Dutch one (tagged) is from the #InternationalBooker longlist. If I‘ll finish them all I have more #womenprize books to choose from 😀
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