Brother by David Chariandy

Brother by David Chariandy

A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life. --Marlon James

Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope. --Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter

WINER--Toronto Book Award
WINER--Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
WINER--Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction

Esquire Best Books of the Year
Kirkus Best Books of the Year
Guardian Best Books of the Year
New York Public Library Best Books of the Year

Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist
PEN Open Book Awards Longlist
Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Longlist
The Believer Book Awards Longlist

Every sentence feels like a polished stone. -Entertainment Weekly

Elegiac and incendiary -Boston Globe

A dwarf star of mourning and regret -Wall Street Journal

Elegant, vital, indubitably dope -Guardian

An important, vital and groundbreaking book -Medium

An absolutely mammoth literary talent -KIESE LAYMON

Riveting, composed, charged with feeling -MADELEINE THIEN

In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991.

One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing Michael to his crew's barbershop hangout, and leading escapes into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves.

Propelled by the beats and styles of hip hop, Francis dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow.

Honest and insightful in its portrayal of kinship, community, and lives cut short, David Chariandy's Brother is an emotional tour de force that marks the arrival of a stunning new literary voice.

DAVID CHARIANDY grew up in Toronto and lives and teaches in Vancouver. His debut novel, Soucouyant, received stunning reviews and recognition from eleven literary award juries, including a Governor General's Literary Award shortlisting, a Gold Independent Publisher Award for Best Novel, and a Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. His second novel, Brother, was published in 2017 and was named to the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist.

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ISBN 13	9781635572049
ISBN 10	1635572045
Titel	Brother
Autor	David Chariandy
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Verlag	Bloomsbury Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2018-07-31
Seitenanzahl	192
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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