Author:Gerbrand Bakker,David Colmer
WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE
'A wonderful novel. Wise and generous to a fault of all our human failings and frailties' Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip
A Dutch woman rents a remote farm in rural Wales. She says her name is Emilie. She has left her husband, having confessed to an affair.
In Amsterdam, her stunned husband forms a strange partnership with a detective who agrees to help him trace her. They board the ferry to Hull on Christmas Eve.
Back on the farm, a young man out walking with his dog injures himself and stays the night, then ends up staying longer. Yet something is deeply wrong. Does he know what he is getting himself into? And what will happen when her husband and the detective arrive?
Simple and devastating
—— Daniel Hahn , IndependentThe Detour is a beautiful, oddly moving work of fiction, a quiet read that lingers long in the mind, like the ghosts that linger in our homes, and in the land around us
—— John Burnside , GuardianThis is a novel full of hints and mysteries… [It] will almost certainly keep you routed to your chair until the denouement.
—— Connie Bensley , The SpectatorQuietly astonishing
—— Jonathan Gibbs , Times Literary SupplementIntelligently thoughtful
—— Eileen Battersby , Irish TimesTranquility and tension create a quiet triumph
—— Nadine O'Regan , Sunday Business PostThis intriguing novel, translated with quiet passion by David Colmer, captures how it feels to have ‘no idea what to do next, how to move backward or forward
—— Emma Hagestadt , IndependentDeliberately side-stepping any trite resolutions, The Detour, is a haunting and quietly thoughtful work, written with a restraint and lack of sentimentality that matches the somewhat bleak landscape
—— Alastair Mabbott , HeraldPage-turning
—— The AsylumThe story is deeply involving, the dialogue utterly convincing, and the translation near-perfect. Unpretentious, restrained and profound, The Detour is everything a novel should be
—— Jean Boase-Beier , IndependentA brilliantly uncomfortable read about the art of forgetfulness
—— Emma Hagestadt , IndependentBrilliant... You won't put this book down until its emotional end
—— Siraj Patel , Daily Express
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