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The Half Brother

by Lars Saabye Christensen · 2001

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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.

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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.

Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
sagasagaMore like thisLess of thissiblingssiblingsMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisScandinaviaScandinaviaMore like thisLess of thisNorwayNorwayMore like thisLess of thisOsloOsloMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 650 pages

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