Brother
Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
(Sprache: Englisch)
An essential novel from a powerful new voice, Brother is a gripping and emotional story about family, race and love
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An essential novel from a powerful new voice, Brother is a gripping and emotional story about family, race and love
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'A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life' Marlon James, Winner of the Man Booker PrizeWINNER OF THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZEWINNER OF THE TORONTO BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEMichael and Francis are the bright, ambitious sons of Trinidadian immigrants. Coming of age in the outskirts of a sprawling city, the brothers battle against careless prejudices and low expectations.While Francis aspires to a future in music, Michael dreams of Aisha, the smartest girl in their school, whose eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But one sweltering summer night the hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably cut short.In this timely and essential novel, David Chariandy builds a quietly devastating story about the love between a mother and her sons, the impact of race, masculinity and the senseless loss of young lives.
Autoren-Porträt von David Chariandy
David Chariandy grew up in Toronto and lives and teaches in Vancouver. He is the author of the novels Soucouyant, which received nominations from eleven literary awards juries, and Brother, which won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Toronto Book Award, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize and nominated for the 2019 Dublin Literary Award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Chariandy
- 2018, 192 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 21,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408897261
- ISBN-13: 9781408897263
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.03.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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