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Diez gansos blancos
Diez gansos blancos
Diez gansos blancos
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Diez gansos blancos

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Una mujer extranjera alquila una solitaria granja en Gales. Dice que su nombre es Emilie. En la granja encuentra diez gansos que van desapareciendo sin que sepa la causa. Poco a poco conoceremos a la protagonista y querremos saber más.

¿De qué huye? ¿Por qué no echa al desconocido que aparece en la granja? ¿Qué hará cuando el marido la encuentre?

Con estos elementos se podría pensar en un thriller convencional, pero en este libro por encima de todo encontramos una forma de narrar, la de Bakker, y una mujer que permanece en el recuerdo, o quizás en los sueños, durante mucho tiempo.
IdiomaEspañol
Fecha de lanzamiento1 oct 2013
ISBN9788415539636

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  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    The DetourGerbrand BakkerTranslator David ColmerThe first thing you notice are the very short chapters and minor discrepancies such as the doctor smoking in the surgery and the number of packets of paracetamol you are allowed to purchase in one transaction. This is soon forgotten as you are carried along in to the story. It is strangely compelling you are drawn into the often bizarre storyline and just want to keep reading. The author drips fragments of information about “Emilie’s” former life gradually throughout the book. These help you build up a picture piece by piece of how her life used to be and the secrets she is withholding on the farm in North WalesI was intrigued to find out why she left Rotterdam and was fascinated by her strange parents and their reaction to her disappearance.The way the characters of her husband, mother and father are referred to seemed a little odd as “the husband” “the mother” and “the father” Whether this is due to translation or a reluctance to reveal their names I’m not sureFull of strange occurrences, awkward encounters and social interactionsI really enjoyed it and would recommend it to others Left me with a longing to read Emily Dickinson, a desire to eat marble cake and an intrigue to find out more about “Bradwen Jones”Translator David ColmerIt was interesting to read he is Australian and lives in Amsterdam so he has personal knowledge of both languages and cultures. Maybe this adds to fluency of his translationsHe was also responsible for translating “The Twin” Gerbrand Bakker first novel so probably has close working relationship aware of each others style and expectation of outcome
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    A woman arrives from the Netherlands and sets up home in a remote farm she rents from a local. She says her name is Emilie and that she is a lecturer researching the life on Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886). On arrival she inherits the responsibility for ten geese, but slowly one by one they disappear with the chief suspect being a fox. We learn that the reason she has left her homeland and come to this remote farm is that her life back home had become unbearable after she confessed to an affair with one of her students, which resulted in her loosing her post after it became common knowledge.Back in the Netherlands her husband, who after a jealous outburst which involved accidently setting fire to her office, has formed a strange partnership with the police officer sent to arrest him and now they are both on her tail. Unaware of any of this Emilie meets a young man who appears to have injured himself whilst out walking his dog, he initially stays the night, but ends up staying a lot longer forming a strange relationship with Emilie.It is very hard to describe what is happening in this book, for one thing very little does happen, meaning what you do reveal would need to be covered in spoiler alerts. More important is the realisation that what happens, very little of it is on the surface, it is as though you arrived in a mystery with only part of the facts and that for all your attempts to dig deeper – your only reward is hints, innuendo, and sly suggestion. Making this a book full of strange undercurrents of what ifs and whys, that like some dissonant background music constantly raises your awareness to this tales ambiguities, bringing with it a realisation that isn’t a tale or rural Wales with the protagonist living the good life in some primrose embroidered cottage.Although this may be an escape to the country but from what and why? It also makes you conscious that despite what you are reading, there is so much left unsaid, so much that you are not being told. Making this a book that happens more within your head, than it does on the page, leaving you with nothing but those hints and innuendos as your means to interpret what happens on the page.This is a strange quirky little book that skirts around issues of isolation and inner turmoil, that demurely screams it’s angst at life's tribulations. This is a quiet tragedy shot through with a dry humour that pierces all the angsts and obfuscation like the sun through the clouds on a welsh hillside.Since reading this book which was on the International Foreign Fiction Prize longlist, it made the cut and is now shortlisted which is wonderful, as it definitely deserves to be there, not just for the tale but also for David Colmer’s translation which made this book a beautiful and seamless read.
  • Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas
    4/5
    The woman appears almost mysteriously, renting the little cottage recently left empty after the previous owner died. She keeps to herself and spends her time fixing up the place. Enter the young man on a journey with his dog, and they all find a quiet existence together. This was a very quiet, slow-moving story. It sort of reminded me of a little known Sean Connery movie called Five Days One Summer. Just slow and meandering, light on the dialogue, picturesque.The setting for this story is a very idyllic place, with things like “the kissing gate”, the stone circle, geese, pond, and charming bakers in town.I had no idea how much of a "mystery" this story would be. The character Emily is mysterious. You don't know why she is at this cottage, and are given glimpses into her other life. You don't know who this boy is that shows up with his dog, or what his intentions are. What about the other characters? Who was the woman who lived in the cottage before Emily? And what about those darn geese and sheep? Who do they belong to?There are allusions early on to Emily's failing health, but this isn't clarified until later on. Perhaps this is the reason she is so impersonal and nondescript. The boy is generally referred to as “the boy” and the dog as “the dog”. Names are rarely used. She doesn’t want to be personally involved, and wants to be alone.My final word: This story was well-written, and beautifully descriptive, making it easy for me to see the green hills, stone walls, quaint cottage, elusive geese. I didn't realize just how much of a mysterious bent the story would carry, but I enjoyed it. And it really sparked an interest in Emily Dickinson, with little blurbs of Dickinson poetry throughout. My one complaint is that there were a few dangling plotlines that left me hanging. Characters and ideas would be introduced only to fade away, questions arose and were left unanswered. But overall I enjoyed it. If you enjoy a quiet story with beautiful scenery, give this one a shot.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    I can’t make up my mind about this book. On the one hand it’s a wonderfully atmospheric read, on the other elements of the story are so obscure and abstract book this becomes a frustrating elusive story to read. Having said all of that, conversely I loved all the mysteries in the book, why did she leave Rotterdam, was she really ill, bitten by badger, etc.? I really liked the unreality of the setting and how her perception of events flips between reality and seeming hallucination. This is maybe one of those books I need to sit with for a time and possibly re-read before I can make up my mind.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    An initially unnamed Dutch woman leaves her husband and her country, and finds herself in an isolated cottage in North Wales. There are hints of an affair with a student at the University in which she taught, and where she was completing her thesis on Emily Dickinson. Unfamiliar with country living she gradually comes to terms with her surroundings, and with the needs of the ten geese which she has acquired with the rental of the house and which are disappearing one by one. Into this solitary existence comes Rhys Jones, a neighbouring farmer, who Emilie (or is it Agnes) finds repulsive, and Bradwen, a young student who stays in the cottage after a chance encounter. Back in the Netherlands the abandoned husband discovers that her affair was not the only secret his wife was keeping, and resolves to follow her. So far so good but I also found many things to irritate me about this book, starting with this sentence: 'Rhys Jones looked like a caricature of a Welshman: a broad face, thick greasy hair, watery eyes, unshaven'. And having got me indignant on behalf of my fellow countrymen, the book proceeded to annoy me in a number of other ways. A sense of place is something that's very important to me, but it's something I didn't get from The Detour. I mean it's November ... in Snowdonia ... and yet the weather seems to be warm enough to encourage the main character to strip off and lie naked in the sun, or bathe in newly discovered pools. Where are the howling gales, and the mist, and the rain that goes on for day after day? And then there are the factual errors about life in Britain that jarred, and further detracted from my enjoyment of the book: a doctor chain smoking in his surgery while seeing patients is one of these (it's been illegal to smoke in any workplace or enclosed public place for some years now, and for years before that it would have been unthinkable to smoke in that particular environment.) And this comment about a ferry from the Netherlands to Hull left me wondering whether the author had ever been on a ferry in his life: 'This boat wasn't set up for meals: it left at 9pm and docked at nine the next morning. The husband and policeman couldn't find any breakfast.' Really? On a twelve hour ferry journey? In my (fairly extensive) experience of ferries the main aim of ferry operators is to get the travellers to spend as much money on food and drink as is humanly possible. You can always get breakfast. And dinner. And lunch. And snacks in between.But above all my main problem with the book is that none of the character's actions make the slightest sense to me. I'm quite happy with a certain amount of ambiguity, but there wasn't a single character whose motivations I felt I could even begin to guess at. So by the end of the book I had very little idea of what the point of it all had been. Overall, then, a disappointment, which was a shame as I'd had this one of my wish list for a while and had expected to like it. But no more than adequate for me I'm afraid.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    I can say now, without a doubt, that Bakker is my favourite author. Maybe not for ever; maybe he'll write a lousy book next, but "The Detour" confirms the opinion I formed after reading "The Twin". I think Bakker's greatest skill is in his decision about what not to say. There are so many things we don't know in this book (including the main character's name until the last few pages) but that lack of knowledge enhances the story. I can't really explain why that is the case, but it's not like an Agatha Christie mystery in which all of the missing pieces are revealed at the end, in Bakker's story the end of the book leaves the reader with the certain knowledge that those missing elements needed to stay missing. In the same way, it seems that every single word in the book is there because it had to be. There's no rambling on about nothing and all of the 230 pages of text are gems. There's humour, but there's great depth and sadness. I'd like to read more of Bakker's work and know more about him but his other books, his blog (and his tweets!) seem to be only in Dutch. Is it too late for me to learn a new language?
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    This is a quiet book, set in Wales, with evocative and beautiful prose, a book in which I had no clue what I was reading or where it was going. Yet the prose kept me reading, a few things fell in place, the descriptions of the garden, the farm, and the place she was living was stellar. A few things began to fall in place and the reader learns what brought her here and why. There are no gasping denouements, no active action scenes or bloody body parts, just s story about a woman, running away from the world in which she was an Emily Dickens Scholar and a married woman. Intriguing.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    A woman, a Dutch academic, flees her former life in Amsterdam for the solitude of a Welsh farm. Why? A love affair with a student that ended badly? Poor progress on her dissertation about Emily Dickinson, a subject for which she has developed an aversion? Before long she is joined by a young man who stays, and stays. Meanwhile, in Amsterdam her husband attempts to trace her with the help of a policeman with whom he has struck up a friendship. Underlying the descriptions daily life; hair cuts, trips to the bakery and Tesco there is a foreboding, an unrelenting sadness and worry that is echoed in the mysterious disappearance-one by one-of some of the ten geese that live at the farm. The closer the boy and woman become the further they are apart because of her need to keep a part of herself to herself. After all she did try to get him to leave. What is she to do with him? What's eating at her anyway? And, what is her name? She is using a name not her own. Why? What is behind the boy's need to linger.

    Gerbrand's stark imagery of the Welsh landscape layered with the homey descriptions of the Spartan farmhouse with its glowing AGA cooker, the young man's wholesome cooking create a palpable tension. Pieces fall in place bit by bit only to come falling apart again. The depth of this haunting characters will not soon be forgotten.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    A dutch woman runs away from home and hides away in a remote area in the mountains in Wales where she rents a cottage. But what is she running from? What is she doing there? In the beginning we find out that it has something to do with betrayal and the end of a love affair - but is it all?She wants to be alone yet several people intrude upon her seclusion - and after a while she invites another young man to stay at her house and their relationship is an odd mixture of detachment and intimacy - many things between them are unsaid. Back in Holland we learn that the husband is looking for her….She's doing a thesis on Emily Dickinson, and this secluded poet with poems about nature, grief, suffering and death always looms as a backdrop to the novel. As the novel progresses we learn more about her motives, her self-searching - and the suspense thickens. I loved the distinctive atmosphere Bakker creates with his sparse unemotional prose. Short sentences, very economical prose. It's very difficult to describe - all the unstated between the characters, the role nature plays in the drowsy drama, the strange local people she encounters.Underneath it all is an existential alienation, emptiness, yet also a yearning for transcendence, physical connection, love, understanding, sympathy.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    “… she sensed how vulnerable people are when they have no idea what to do next, how to move forward or back.” (Ch 4)A Dutch woman, a university professor who has spent her academic life studying Emily Dickinson, admits to an affair with a student and subsequently abandons her life in Amsterdam and, without informing either husband or parents, moves to rural Wales and rents a farm. Ten geese are living on the property, but one by one they mysteriously disappear. As they geese are diminished in number, it becomes apparent that Emilie’s reasons for escaping Amsterdam are not as straight forward as they initially appeared. A young man, Bradwen, arrives at the farm and stays, first one night and then several more. Meanwhile, Emilie’s husband, has engaged a police officer and is working to track her down. As for Emilie, something is very wrong: “She couldn’t go on like this much longer. She wondered if she was up to it. Until yesterday she had been almost certain she was.” (Ch 31)The Detour is a moving, provocative novel about human relationships and about the sophisticated and complex decisions even those of us living the most ordinary of lives are called upon to make. Bakker, writing in his trademark spare and simple prose, continues to impress with his ability to create a rich and intimate experience. As with The Twin, I was wholly engaged here, and will be watching for his next work. Highly recommended! “Last night, looking at herself smoking, she saw her face change into a stranger’s: a voyeur rather than a reflection.” (Ch 9)
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    I cannot fault this writer’s ability to describe. It is as if the writer themselves is living this novel, each breath, each touch and or sense that is brought out to the reader. At times it was a bit too much. The beginning seemed to drag a bit.. A lot.. and there was very little action, more of a philosopher’s tale. The plot is there and a good one, but seems to be hidden in between and within so much of the other, you might find yourself forgetting the bits of story that is really there. I admit I read some.. put it down and came back. After I got past the first 100 pages or so, it began to flow more like a story and less like a journal entry. Not sure if I would actually recommend the book unless I really knew the reader’s reading taste. This book is not for everyone.Bought via Amazon.

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