The Half Brother
Lars Saabye Christensen
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.
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- Arcade Publishing
- Year
- 2004
- ISBN-13
- 9781559707152
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Family sagaGenerational relationshipsIdentity
Awards
- International Dublin Literary AwardShortlistedMajor(2005)
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