How does that work? I thought to myself while reading “Brüderchen” that you must recommend this novel with everything you have. What I have: passion and enthusiasm. And the vague feeling it won’t work that way. To beat a loud drum for such a tender, fragile family history as described in “Brother”? Which still comes with such emotional power that I might even be at a loss for the right words?
Somewhere in a small town in the French Cevennes, a little boy is born into a happy family. Father, mother, two children, the son nine, his sister seven.
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