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Brother

A Novel

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Brother

Auteur(s): David Chariandy
Narrateur(s): Joseph Pierre
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 Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Toronto Book Award, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

Named a Best Book of the Year by Globe and Mail, National Post, Guardian, Esquire, New York Public Library, NOW Magazine, Chatelaine, CBC, Quill & Quire, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Kirkus Reviews, and more

A Canada Reads Finalist
A Penguin Book Club Pick

Now an acclaimed film directed by Clement Virgo and starring Lamar Johnson, and Aaron Pierre

Winner of the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, David Chariandy's Brother is his intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, and tightly constructed second novel, exploring questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.

With shimmering prose and mesmerizing precision, David Chariandy takes us inside the lives of Michael and Francis. They are the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, their father has disappeared and their mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home.

Coming of age in The Park, a cluster of town houses and leaning concrete towers in the disparaged outskirts of a sprawling city, Michael and Francis battle against the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry--teachers stream them into general classes; shopkeepers see them only as thieves; and strangers quicken their pace when the brothers are behind them. Always Michael and Francis escape into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness that cuts through their neighbourhood, where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves.

Propelled by the pulsing beats and styles of hip hop, Francis, the older of the two brothers, dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow.

With devastating emotional force David Chariandy, a unique and exciting voice in Canadian literature, crafts a heartbreaking and timely story about the profound love that exists between brothers and the senseless loss of lives cut short with the shot of a gun. Créateurs noirs Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Récits initiatiques Émouvant Rêve
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well written book! loved it!! I could relate to many parts of the story having grown up in a family with Caribbean heritage.

Amazing coming of age story

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This short novel is rife with riveting characters, a strong sense of place and setting, and a terrific overall reading by Joseph Pierre. The story of two brothers raised in Scarborough by their mother, and their two different routes in life, their very different personalities, and the effects they have on one another, bring this novel alive. The setting, and Chariandy's descriptions throughout of the community and place are compelling, too. This story and its characters linger long after you've finished hearing it.

Great characters, setting, will linger long after

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Brother is a fantastic reflection on what it means to be a child (to have parents), on being a sibling, on race and religion, and on class identity. I loved Chariandy's last novel and this didn't disappoint despite the wide class and racial differences between me and the protagonist.

Fantastic reflection on life

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I was unable to stop listening. So much of this book resonates with my own memories of Toronto in the 1980s. On the other hand, so much is like another world. A reminder that in a country still striving for social justice, wildly different lives unfold just around the corner from our own.

Gritty, honest, lyrical

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This book gets into your soul--subtle and indelible. The characters, the writing, the depth of story that plunges the reader far below the still surface...everything about this book is perfection.

Extraordinary

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