Jente Posthuma <br/><br/>
WHAT I'D RATHER NOT THINK ABOUT 

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 - USA  Scribe  2023 
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<br/><br/> The International Booker Prize 2024 Longlisted. <br/><br/>Translated from Dutch as "Waar ik liever niet aan denk" by Sarah Timmer Harvey<br/><br/>What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?<br/><br/><br/>This question lies 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: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely.<br/><br/><br/>In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, 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.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781914484711 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchased  Prism Books,Kadavanthra  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>F  / JEN/WH