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The Half Brother

Lars Saabye Christensen

2005·696 pages

Historical Fiction

This 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.

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The Half Brother

Lars Saabye Christensen

Year

2005

Pages

696

Historical Fiction

Description

This 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.

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