The Half Brother
Lars Saabye Christensen
696 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1559707593
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Language: English
Publish: June 2, 2005
ContemporaryFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsRomanScandinavian LiteratureUnfinished
This Nordic Prize-winning novel, a truly gripping epic, relates the lives of four generations of a unique and strange family with touching intimacy and surreal comedy.
Traces four generations of a family marked by the untimely birth of Fred, a misfit and boxer conceived during a devastating rape who forges an unusual friendship with his younger half-brother, Barnum.