TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atxaga, Bernardo
TI  - Two Brothers
SN  - 9781860468349
U1  - 823/ATX/Two 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - The Harvill Press
KW  - English-Novel
N1  - Book Purchased Under BCOM @599/- with bill no: 368, dtd: 18/01/2024; 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
N2  - 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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