About the book
What I’d rather not think about, the second novel by Jente Posthuma, thanks to the publisher Bunker Books.
What I Prefer Not to Think About has been shortlisted for the European Union Literature Prize and is an emotional journey that covers the lives of two twin brothers, their learning process together, their progressive separation and finally their painful disappearance.
Jente Posthuma structures a story of memories and reflections with a fragmentary architecture, in which pain, loneliness, fears and nostalgia build a shocking and addictive narrative that questions the society of our days with suicide as a backdrop.
Adolescence, LGTBI sexuality, gender inequality, patriarchy or social and work competitiveness are just some of the themes that the story of What I’d Rather Not Think About focuses on, an emotional journey that runs through the close relationship of two twin brothers. who discover life together thinking that nothing would separate them and independently live the designs of destiny.
If you try hard and think, “I’m going to remember this for the rest of my life,” you will remember it, but you can’t hold people in the same way. They can simply get up and walk out of the picture. The protagonist is convinced that she will never be alone, because she has a twin brother, the only one she is sure will always be there. She does not want to live by herself, the path of individuation always leads her to find herself facing her brother. But love is asymmetrical: there is always one who loves the other more. And her brother needs to get away, she needs to escape and (in the end) disappear.
In this sometimes sad and always beautiful novel about abandonment, our protagonist must discover how to continue when you feel so insignificant that you can only exist through another person, and that person is no longer there.
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