The Brother
By (Author) Rein Raud
Translated by Adam Cullen
Open Letter
Open Letter
13th September 2016
United States
General
Fiction
894.54533
Paperback
115
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
The Brother opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of men, men who recently cheated the stranger's supposed sister out of her inheritance. Resigned to giving up on her dreams and ambitions, Laila took this swindling in stride, something that Brother won't stand for. Soon after his arrival, fortunes change dramatically, enraging this group of powerful men, motivating them to get their revenge on Brother. Meanwhile, a rat-faced paralegal makes it his mission to discover Brother's true identity.
"Like a lone Eastwood in the midst of a flock of van Dammes."Tarmo Jristo "The Brother is like a piece of music played in a sunny room. And only later you realize that the descriptions, as if out of this world, the turns of the story, and its single phrases have been deeply engraved in your mind."Marius Burokas
Rein Raud is the author of four books of poetry, six novels, and several collections of short fiction. He's also a scholar in Japanese studies and has translated several works of Japanese into Estonian. One of his short pieces appeared in Best European Fiction 2015. Adam Cullen was born and educated in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but currently resides in Tallinn where he's translated dozens of plays, stories, and poems. He's also translated three published novels, including Radio by Tnu nnepalu and The Cavemen Chronicle by Mihkel Mutt.