Rouwdouwers

Ada and Broos, her brother two years younger, were raised in a static caravan on a campsite by their father alone, a bitter gardener who toughened them up by making them duck one another in the lake beside the site: no crying, and barely a word spoken. By fourteen Broos has gone astray, stolen money at home and ended up in an institution. Ada, having given up on art school, now lives in Galicia, cutting timber for a farmer she cannot talk to. With each blow of the axe the brother she has lost touch with, the only person whose body remembers what hers does, comes back to her more insistently.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

235 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Spain

First published

2024 by Atlas Contact

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9789025473570 (original)