Donkey, Sheep and Redshank | Ezel, schaap en tureluur
Gerbrand Bakker
Gerbrand Bakker’s novel The Twin has made an overwhelming entrance in the literary world. The way he describes nature made a great impression. His observations of animals in his novel where compared with some other important writers. Almost casually he portraits them like he looks them straight in the eye.
In Donkey, Sheep and Redshank the animals are the protagonists. We read his original stories on the swift, the redshank, the jackdaw, the snipe, the dachshund, the sheep dog, the cow, the donkey and of course the sheep and many more. We follow them through the seasons in daily notes. Gerbrand Bakker’s words make you laugh and move you at the same time.
Praise for Donkey, Sheep and Redschank
‘Bakker recalls the atmosphere of rural Holland in a beautiful and subdued way. Of the people who were born and raised there and the animals that fade into the landscape.’ – de Volkskrant
‘Oyster catchers, seagulls, crows, cows and sheep grazing in juicy pastures. Bakker uses nature almost as a persona.’ – De Telegraaf
Suhrkamp / Insel (Germany)
Komische Vögel - Tiertagebuch
Gerbrand Bakker erzählt in Komische Vögel liebevoll, originell und witzig von allerlei Haus- und Nutztieren, von renitenten Wiederkäuern und anschmiegsamen Plagegeistern, von wundersamen Begegnungen und seltsamen Vorfällen und von Menschen, die im Umgang mit Tieren nicht immer die Überlegenen sind …
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