The Half Brother

Lars Saabye Christensen · 2001 CE · Novel · Nordic · Contemporary

Barnum Nilsen, born in Oslo in 1945, narrates the postwar decades of his life, in which his damaged half-brother Fred and a fractured family never cease to press on him. The Oslo of rebuilding, television and changing manners forms the backdrop. A long, popular novel that is often counted among the central Norwegian books of its generation.

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