num_pages: 696
description: This Nordic Prize-winning novel, a truly gripping epic, relates the lives of four generations of a unique and strange family with touching intimacy and surreal comedy.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.
language: English
title: The Half Brother
titlecomplete: The Half Brother
characters: Barnum Nilsen, Fred
genres: Unfinished, Roman, Historical, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 3751
places: Oslo
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Nordic Council Literature Prize (Nordisk Raads Litteraturpris), awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Brageprisen
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Bokhandlerprisen, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: P2-lytternes romanpris
publisher: Arcade Publishing