by Lars Saabye Christensen · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253113355
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«Le demi-frère» is the novel by Lars Saabye Christensen in paperback (884 pages, in French).
Set in Oslo in the 1950s, it tells the story of Fred and Barnum, half-brothers raised by their mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. With a tone that alternates between drama and irony, it explores the secrets surrounding the children's origins, silence as a refuge, and the cracks left by unconfessed family pacts.
Original Norwegian work: «Halvbroren» (2001), translated into French by Jean-Baptiste Coursaud. Nordic Council Literature Prize 2002 and Brageprisen 2001.
For fans of Scandinavian fiction and generational family stories.
Lars Saabye Christensen is a Norwegian-Danish author.
