num_pages: 288
description: Set in the great Brazilian port of Manaus during the golden decades of the Rubber Boom in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this is the story of identical twin brothers who battle for the love of their mother. It is also a portrait of a city built over the confluence of two great rivers in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.
language: English
title: The Brothers
titlecomplete: The Brothers
characters: Yaqub, Omar, Halim, Domingas, Rania, Zana
genres: Fiction, Brazil, Drama, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, 21st Century, Historical Fiction, Portuguese Literature
ratings_count: 2829
places: Manaus
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Prêmio Jabuti
category: Romance
publisher: Bloomsbury Pub