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The Hairdresser's Son

by Gerbrand Bakker

A son and the barbershop his father left behind

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Awards & Recognition

  • Author recognition

    International Dublin Literary Award winner

    Gerbrand Bakker is described as an International Dublin Literary Award winner.

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A son and the barbershop his father left behind

Simon is an adult moving through the barbershop inherited from his father, tending its razors and mirrors. The story’s starting point is a family rupture: when Cornelis learns his wife is pregnant, he leaves, and dies the following day. The shop, marked “FERM,” gives the novel a concrete setting for its attention to family ties and to the traces a parent leaves in a child’s life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in family relationships and their lasting effects.
  • Readers drawn to fiction grounded in the everyday setting of a barbershop.

Themes

Family tiesInheritance and parental absenceMemory and everyday work

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Book overview

International Dublin Literary Award-winning Gerbrand Bakker gives voice to the visceral power of family ties in a novel brimming with Knausgaardian detail

When his wife tells him she is pregnant, Cornelis packs his bags and boards a plane--a day later he is dead. Now grown, Simon roams the barbershop his father left him, honing razors and polishing mirrors in a shop marked FERM
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