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Halvbroren : roman

Autor: Christensen, Lars Saabye

The Half Brother is a family drama of pleasure and of sorrow from Lars Saabye Christensen’s Oslo. The book is considered his life’s work, and it took him more than 20 years to write it. The novel begins with a description of three women and three generations: the grandmother, who is an old silent movie star, the mother Boletta and the daughter Vera. The men only lived there for a passing moment - the time it takes to conceive a child and then disappear. On 8 May 1945, when Oslo and

the whole world rejoice, Vera meets a man she has never seen before. He rapes her, Vera becomes pregnant and gives birth to her son Fred, who is raised by the novel’s three solitary women. Four years later, Vera becomes pregnant again, now with Arnold the circus performer, and Fred’s half brother is born. The book gives a tender-hearted description of the relationship between the two half brothers and their different paths in life.

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