Review: Erwin Mortier remembers his Alzheimer-stricken mother with this heartbreakingly beautiful tribute. Don’t expect to breeze through Stammered Songbook for it is hard to not be touched by Mortier’s vivid and sensitive prose.
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Gerbrand Bakker: The Twin
Earlier today I was going through some photos of scanned negatives that had unfortunately deteriorated as they were not stored in air-tight conditions in humid Singapore. Most of the scanned images taken in the 1980s appear yellowed and/or with white streaks running all over. While browsing through them, I spotted a double-exposed image of me…
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Gerbrand Bakker: The Detour
Gerbrand Bakker’s “The Detour“, translated from Dutch into English by David Colmer: This is a story about a woman with a debilitating illness who has escaped from her former life in Amsterdam and retreated into a rural farmhouse, complete with an unused pigsty, geese and roaming sheep, in northern Wales. Narrated from a third-person perspective, the…
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Angelina Hue 