Brothers by Jackie Thomae
A novel about family and masculinity, and the question of whether we shape our own destiny - or whether our background and character inevitably shape us.
"Bruder is an incredibly gripping read, but Jackie Thomae also manages to weave existential questions and themes into it with great ease, almost in passing"2019 Jury of the German Book Prize - "Bruder spans a wide arc and follows both life stories, which are also tales about love, family and cities, to the present day, fanning out debates, fashions and the depths of the decades featured. Thomae describes all this with a mixture of seriousness and relaxed storytelling that poses major questions without big words." Sabine Rohlf, Berliner Zeitung - "Bruder is a major social novel where Thomae deals with the heaviest themes with astonishing lightness." Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger- "Jackie Thomae's characters Mick and Gabriel claim for themselves what is natural for white males in European society. They do not want to be defined by their skin colour, and yet it continues to determine their lives." Mechthild Lanfermann, Deutschlandfunk Kultur - "This highly observant social novel shows that skin colour and racism are more complicated than the social justice warriors think." Ijoma Mangold, Die Zeit.- "A cross between Trainspotting and White Teeth." Silke Luhrmann - Literary translator, writer, editor, researcher.- "Jackie Thomae's novel is as funny as it is tragic, touching on topics like racism, family and love. It is about a bygone era - from the mid-1980s to 2017 - and is surprisingly topical. A very readable book with a variety of dimensions in which the reader can become immersed." Karolin Kolbe und Lena Stoenberg, Litaffin Blog
Jackie Thomae was born in 1972 and is a German journalist and writer.
She is the author of a number of works of non-fiction, fiction, literary translations, audio and screen plays.
Her debut novel Momente der Klarheit, was published in 2015. Her second novel, Bruder was on the shortlist for the German Book Prize in 2019 and was awarded the Dusseldorf Literature Prize in 2020. In 2021 she was awarded a sponsorship prize of the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony.
Her literary translations include Zusammenkunft from the English original, Assembly by Natasha Brown and in 2023, she wrote an audio play based on the novel, Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo.
Born in Halle, Jackie grew up in Leipzig and Berlin where she currently resides.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781838221584 |
| ISBN 10 | 1838221581 |
| Title | Brothers |
| Author | Jackie Thomae |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | DAS EDITIONS |
| Year published | 2024-02-29 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Prizes | Winner of English Pen Translates Award 2022 |
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