The Half Brother
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The Half Brother
At the end of World War II, twenty-year-old Vera is brutally raped by an unknown assailant. From that rape is born a boy named Fred, a misfit who later becomes a talented boxer. Vera’s young son, Barnum, forms a special but bizarre relationship with his half brother, fraught with rivalry and dependence as well as love. “I should have been your father,” Fred tells Barnum, “instead of the fool who says he is.” It is Barnum, who is now a screenwriter with a fondness for lies and alcohol, who narrates his family’s saga. As he shares his family’s history, he chronicles generations of independent women and absent and flawed men whom he calls the Night Men. Among them is his father, Arnold, who bequeaths to Barnum his circus name, his excessively small stature, and a con man’s belief in the power of illusion. Filled with a galaxy of finely etched characters, this prize-winning novel is a tour de force and a literary masterpiece richly deserving of the accolades it has received.
The Half Brother
Author: Lars Saabye Christensen
language: en
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Release Date: 2004
In stunning detail and elegant prose, this truly gripping, epic novel--a wonderful mixture of surreal comedy and touching intimacy--relates the lives of four generations of a far-from-ordinary family.
The Half-Brothers
One brother is treated like a king by his father because of his bright future, but his older half-brother is treated like an outcast. Will they learn to reconcile their differences?