Brother's Ghost: A Novella

ISBN-13: 9780810127463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 80 str.

Stephen Spotte

Opis

When the young narrator of "Brother s Ghost" happens upon a warehouse filled with corpses of the disappeared ones, victims of his country s brutal military regime, he is forced to flee his home and family and strike out for the interior. There he reunites with his long-estranged mother, a member of an indigenous tribe of Indians living deep in the tropical rainforest. Mistaken for the ghost of his deceased twin brother, the narrator takes his brother s place in tribal society, learning to hunt and fight but never escaping the memory of his former life in the city. Scientist and author Stephen Spotte s compact tale captures the tensions of this unnamed South American country, of its cities and interior, and the confusion of straddling two cultures while belonging to neither."