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First published as De omweg by Uitgeverij Cossee, Amsterdam, 2010

This edition published by arrangement with Harvill Secker, Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London

Published in Australia and New Zealand by Scribe 2012

Copyright © Gerbrand Bakker and Uitgeverij Cossee 2010

English translation copyright © David Colmer 2012

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Cataloguing-in-Publication data

Bakker, Gerbrand, 1962-

The Detour.

9781921942457 (e-book.)

839.3137

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