Publishers Weekly, May 17th, 2004
THE HALF BROTHER LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN, TRANS. FROM THE NORWEGIAN BY KENNETH STEVEN. Arcade, $27 (696p) ISBN 1-55970-715-1 * Epic yet startlingly contemporary, this massive novel charts 50 years in the life of an unconventional Oslo family, lighted by gleams of the frozen north and the glow of movie screens. 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 crime, Barnum's half-brother, Fred, is conceived. Fred is angry, prone to mood swings and outbursts of ver...
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