The half brother
By: by Lars Saabye Christensen ; translated from the Norwegian by Kenneth Steven.
Contributors: Steven, Kenneth.
Publisher: Arcadia; Distributed by Turnaround Publishers Services
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: nor
Translation of: Halvbroren
Number of pages: 766
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.
Notes: Originally published: Oslo : J.W.Cappelen, 2001.