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What I’d Rather Not Think About
Jente Posthuma, Sarah Timmer Harvey (translation)SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
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“A unique story of a twin brother & sister, wryly funny & heartbreakingly sad.” —Herman Koch
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What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?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, & tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men & the Bhagwan movement, though never completely. In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy & surprising humour, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves & resents her twin, struggles to understand him, & misses him terribly.
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Jente Posthuma’s critically acclaimed first novel, Mensen zonder uitstraling (People Without Charisma), was published in 2016 & nominated for the Dioraphte Literatour Prize, the Hebban Debut Prize, & the ANV Debut Prize. Her 2nd novel, What I’d Rather Not Think About, published in 2020, was equally well received, & was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature 2021.
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Sarah Timmer Harvey is a translator & writer based in Woodstock, NY. She holds an MFA from Columbia University & a BA from Southern Cross Univ. Sarah’s translation of Jente Posthuma’s What I’d Rather Not Think About was published by Scribe in 2023; Reconstruction, their translation of stories written by the Dutch-Surinamese writer Karin Amatmoekrim was published by Strangers Press in 2020, & their translation of Thistle by Nadia de Vries is forthcoming from The New Menard Press. Born in Australia, she lived & worked in the Netherlands for 14 years before moving to NY City in 2013.
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