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The Half Brother: A Novel Reprint Edition
Author(s): Lars Saabye Christensen (Author), Kenneth Steven (Translator)
- Publisher: Arcade Publishing
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2013
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 688 pages
- ISBN-10: 1611457890
- ISBN-13: 9781611457896
Book Description
It is Barnum, who is now a screenwriter with a fondness for lies and alcohol, who narrates his family’s saga. As he shares his family’s history, he chronicles generations of independent women and absent and flawed men whom he calls the Night Men. Among them is his father, Arnold, who bequeaths to Barnum his circus name, his excessively small stature, and a con man’s belief in the power of illusion.
Filled with a galaxy of finely etched characters, this prize-winning novel is a tour de force and a literary masterpiece richly deserving of the accolades it has received.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“[An] enormous, challenging, life-affirming masterpiece.” (starred review)
“An ambitious book, Christensen has conflated the novel of ideas with a family saga, a coming-of-age novel, and ‘a portrait of the artist as a young man.’ . . . His inventiveness is astonishing.”
“Epic yet startling contemporary . . . This is a . . . marvelously rich novel steeped in European history and charged by present-day anxieties.”
