by Marc Rubió Rodon, David Chariandy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494782978
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Germà» is David Chariandy's novel, published by L'Altra Editorial in paperback (184 pages, in Catalan).
Summer of 1991. Michael and Francis grow up in a social housing block, sons of a mother who emigrated from Trinidad and works endless shifts. The story moves between their adolescence and a darker present, with police violence and broken hopes, and traces the strength of brotherly love and the wounds of identity.
Originally written as «Brother» (2017), this edition is a translation by Marc Rubió. Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and coming-of-age novels about migration, racism and family bonds.
David John Chariandy is a Canadian writer and academic, presently working as a Professor of English literature at the University of Toronto. His 2017 novel Brother won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and Toronto Book Award.
