The Half Brother
By (author): "Kenneth Steven, Lars Saabye Christensen"
Publish Date:
2001
ISBN1559707593
ISBN139781559707596
AsinThe Half Brother
CharactersBarnum Nilsen
Original titleHalvbroren
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.