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Fiction The Hitchhiker Gerwin van der Werf: Text Publishing, $33 In a desperate last-ditch bid to save his marriage, Tiddo takes his family on a campervan tour of Iceland, where the barren scenery reflects the desolation of his life. At his wife’s urging, they pick up a hitchhiker. The Viking-esque Svein is everything the reticent and submissive Tiddo is not; a handsome and engaging extrovert, full of colourful stories about trolls and myths, able to coax his son out of his teenage shell and his wife into a sexually-charged dynamic. As they travel ever further off the beaten tourist track, Tiddo becomes increasingly paranoid and heedless of treacherous conditions. The popular Dutch author captures the majesty and menace of the glacial landscape in a compelling psychological drama.
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