What I'd rather not think about / Jente Posthuma ; translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Posthuma, Jente, author.

Contributor:

Timmer Harvey, Sarah, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Waar ik liever niet aan denk. English.

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Depressed persons--Fiction.

Depressed persons.

Dutch fiction--Translations into English.

Dutch fiction.

Genre:

Domestic fiction

Fiction

Psychological fiction

Psychological fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

203 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

What I would rather not think about

Place of Publication:

Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2023.

Language Note:

Translated from the Dutch.

Summary:

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them? These questions lie at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives, and of how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely. In brief, precise vignettes, full of surprising humour and gentle melancholy, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves and resents her twin, struggles to understand him, and misses him terribly.

Notes:

First published in Dutch as Waar ik liever niet aan denk in 2020.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781922585806

1922585807

9781914484711

1914484711

9781957363356

1957363355

OCLC:

1377522247