![]() ![]() Danger seems always close at hand in the area where the family live. ![]() ![]() *links provided for convenience, not as part of any affiliate programmeīrother is an emotional read, not least because, from the outset, the reader has a sense of inevitability that promising lives will be unfulfilled or end tragically. Published in the UK: 8 th March 2018 Genre: Literary Fiction But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic event.īeautifully written and extraordinarily powerful, Brother is a novel of deep humanity which provides a profound insight into love, family, opportunity and grief.įormat: ebook, hardcover (192 pp.) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing While Francis dreams of a future in music, Michael’s dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their school, whose eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. Coming of age in The Park, a cluster of houses and towers in the disparaged outskirts of a sprawling city, the brothers battle against the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them on a daily basis. Michael and Francis are the bright, ambitious sons of Trinidadian immigrants. ![]()
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