Brothers

Lappin, Linda, Samona, Carmelo

The narrator of Brothers is his brother's keeper, trying to impose order on the domestic vortex caused by the latter's inadequacies and demands. He tells the story in order to retain a grip on himself, trying to analyze their relationship in a clinical way, but his account is infected by his brother's problems. Their relationship of dependence and authority begins to turn: is he reading and rearranging the written account of their relationship? This insistent, precise novel draws the reader into an intense world as enclosed as a mystery story.

Collectability score

An intense, poetic Italian novella of fraternal devotion and linguistic alienation, issued by Carcanet.

EAN

9780856359903

Publisher

Carcanet Press Ltd

Published

23 July 1995

Available copies

• Very good
  £23.99