Two Brothers
Publication details: London, The Harvill Press, 2001 Description: 117 Pg PbISBN: 9781860468349Subject(s): English-NovelDDC classification: 823/ATX/TwoItem type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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VVM's Shree Damodar College of Commerce & Economics Margao English-Novel | English-Novel | 823/ATX/Two (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Book Purchased from BCOM Funds @ 599/-, with bill no: 368, dtd: 18/01/2024 | VVM-36283 |
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823/All/Rub Ruby | 823/ATX/Two Two Brothers | 823/BAK/Lit The Little Giant of Aberdeen County | 823/BRA/Cla Clade | 823/BUN/Aft After The Way |
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Contents:
1. The bird's story
2. The bird's story continues
3. The squirrel's story
4. The birds take up the story again
An elegiac tale of lost innocence and the ruthlessness of the natural world, where the hunter all too soon becomes the prey. As he dies leaving his two boys orphans, Paulo's father lays on him the duty to look after his retarded but overgrown younger brother, for otherwise Daniel will be put away in an institution. But Daniel never listens to his brother, who is unable to exert any authority over him. Instead Daniel, aged twenty and still in the throes of puberty, goes off in an inept, fumbling pursuit of the village girls, as they ride past on their bicycles on the way to sewing lessons or cake-baking classes. Among these girls are pretty Teresa and her plain friend, Carmen, a girl disfigured by a birthmark on one cheek. Both of them are sweet on Paulo, the quiet, irresolute but handso...
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