Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, The Twin is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally apart, and yet riven with a kind of romantic longing.
I've just finished reading the book and just loved it.
This book is very psychological, not much action in it.
Despite being set in the flat and wet Dutch countryside on a farm, with nothing much than the daily routine of milking the cows, feeding the sheep etc, there is a strange sense of suspense.
gajdacs1 4 months ago