num_pages: 232
description: Twin brothers Omar and Yaqub may share the same features but they could not be more different from one another. And the possessive love of their mother Zana stirs the troubled waters between them even more. After a brutally violent exchange between the young boys Yaqub the good son is sent from his home in Brazil to live with relatives in Lebanon only to return five years later as a virtual stranger to the parents who bore him his tensions with Omar unchanged. Family secrets engage the reader in this profoundly resonant story about identity love loss deception and the dissolution of blood ties. Set in the port city of Manaus on the riverbanks of the Amazon Two Brothers celebrates the vibrant life and diversity of Brazil. Based on a work by acclaimed novelist Milton Hatoum Two Brothers is stunningly reimagined by the award-winning graphic novelists Fbio Moon and Gabriel B.
language: English
title: Two Brothers
publisher: Dark Horse Originals