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THE PROLIFIC Simon Stephens’s latest offering tells the story of New York-based Dutch banker Willem who, on his brother Pauli’s demise, returns to Amsterdam to be with his family and to attend the funeral.
Shunning the parental home he opts for an impersonal hotel room where, over the course of seven days, he composes a series of letters to his dead brother.
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