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The life of a family spanning five generations in 20th-century Europe, split in half by WWII, centering around half-brothers Barnum and Fred growing up together in Oslo; Barnum with his father, Fred searching for his.
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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Aug 1, 2013 · At the end of World War II, twenty-year-old Vera is brutally raped by an unknown assailant. From that rape is born a boy named Fred, a misfit who later becomes a talented boxer. Vera’s young son, Barnum, forms a special but bizarre relationship with his half brother, fraught with rivalry and dependence as well as love.
- Lars Saabye Christensen
The Half Brother is an impressive, ambitious, big novel. Christensen sustains a remarkable narrative flow: the story and these lives unfold as slowly as a flower opening in the sun, the result as surprising and splendid.
A half-brother or a half-sister is clearly a relative by blood of the brother or sister for whom he or she wishes to be responsible.
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Barnum’s tough half-brother Fred, who was conceived during a mysterious rape on the first day of the peace in Nazi-occupied Norway, has bouts of muteness brought on by trauma and guilt.
Narrator Barnum, an award-winning screenwriter, retraces his family's history, which begins with the rape of his mother, Vera, as a young girl at the end of World War II. From...
This literary marvel tells the story of an ordinary Norwegian family in the 1960s, set apart by extraordinary family members, and of two half-brothers leading very different and separate lives, until they are brought together again at their mother's deathbed.
