The Hairdresser's Son [electronic resource]
Gerbrand Bakker2024
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‘Bakker’s unhurried precision delivers an understated portrait of middle-aged
loneliness, before a twist that probes the role of narrative indeterminacy in
how we make sense of the world.’ The Sydney Morning Herald
Multi–award-winning Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker’s phenomenal new novel about
grief and the unavoidable power of family ties.
Simon never knew his father, Cornelis. When his wife told him she was pregnant,
Cornelis packed his bags, and a day later he was dead. Or everyone assumed he
was dead; after all, he was on the passenger list of the KLM plane that crashed
in Tenerife in 1977.
Simon is a hairdresser, just like his father and grandfather before him, but he
is not passionate about cutting and shaving. ‘Closed’ appears on his shop’s
front door more often than ‘open’, because every customer is a person, and
people suck the energy from him. But there is one client he regularly interacts
with: the writer. The writer is looking for a subject for his next boo...
Main title:
The Hairdresser's Son [electronic resource] / Gerbrand Bakker
Author:
Gerbrand Bakker, Author
Imprint:
Brunswick, Vic. : Scribe Publications, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (288 pages)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781761385698
Language:
English
BRN:
523610
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