Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group

ISbN 978-0-14-312267-8 $15.00 (NCR)
Fiction 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 240 pp. Rights: A00 A Penguin Original
Agent: c/o Random House U.K. First serial, Audio: Penguin
On sale: 2/26/2013
SuggeSTeD ORDeR
“ Simple and devastating.”
—The Independent (U.K.)
“ Beautiful, oddly moving . . .
Even more powerful [than The Twin].”
—The Guardian (London)
“ A novel full of hints and
mysteries [that] will almost certainly
keep you rooted to your chair.”
—The Spectator (U.K.)
ClassiC Penguin
60 mARCh
The eagerly anticipated, internationally
bestselling new novel by the winner of
the world’s richest literary prize for a
single work of fiction
Ten White Geese
A Novel
Gerbrand Bakker
Translated by David Colmer
Fans of Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses, Paul Harding’s Tinkers,
or J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace will love this novel of stealth and
intrigue set against a stark and pristine landscape.
A woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her
name is Emilie. An Emily Dickinson scholar, she has fled Amsterdam,
having just confessed to an affair. On the farm she finds ten
geese. One by one they disappear.
Who is this woman? Will her husband manage to find her?
Who is the young man who stays the night and why won’t he leave?
And what of the vanishing geese? With a seductive blend of solace
and menace, this beguiling novel summons from a woman’s silent
longing fugitive moments of profound beauty and compassion.
n For fans of Out Stealing Horses, Tinkers, or Disgrace
n Gerbrand Bakker won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
for his first novel
geRBRAnd BAkkeR won the 2010 International IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award for his first novel, The Twin. An avid gardener,
he lives in Holland.
dAvid ColMeR is the translator of Bakker’s novel The Twin.
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