The Hairdresser’s Son
A barber’s quiet life is disturbed by his mother’s volunteer work and by a writer who prods him to consider his past. Why was his father on the plane that crashed before he was born? How can he cope with the feelings the athletic, intellectually disabled Igor arouses in him?
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Original title
De kapperszoon
Author
Gerbrand Bakker
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…enthralling in that although nothing feels invented, the pages still seem to exude something magical […] Simply narrated scenes, terrifying and moving at once.
De Groene Amsterdammer
The drip feed of almost thriller-like tension is combined with Bakker’s familiar laconic humour and his usual deep empathy for his characters.
David Colmer (Gerbrand Bakker’s translator)
Gerbrand Bakker
Gerbrand Bakker (b. 1962) is a novelist, diarist and columnist who broke through in 2006 with 'Boven is het stil' (The Twin), which won three prizes in his native Netherlands and another five abroad, most notably the Dublin Literary Award.