by Maria Rosich Andreu, Gerbrand Bakker · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416689880
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«Junio» is the novel by Gerbrand Bakker, translated by Maria Rosich Andreu, published by Rayo Verde Editorial in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
On 17 June 1969, during Queen Juliana's visit to the Polderhuis, little Hanne Kaan is run over and killed by the baker's van. Years later, her brother Jan returns from the island of Texel to tend her grave and confronts the pain and family silences; his niece Dieke doesn't understand why her grandmother shuts herself in the hayloft.
Originally published as «Juni» in 2009 and translated by Maria Rosich Andreu. Gerbrand Bakker is the winner of the Llibreter and IMPAC awards.
For readers of literary fiction and European narrative, with an interest in stories of family, grief and memory.
Gerbrand Bakker is a Dutch writer. He won the International Dublin Literary Award for The Twin, the English translation of his novel Boven is het stil, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Detour, the English translation of his novel De omweg. Both novels were translated by co-winner David Colmer.
