The Brothers

Introducing a major new voice in Brazilian letters.Set among a Lebanese immigrant community in the Brazilian port of Manaus The Brothers is the story of identical twins Yaqub and Omar whose mutual jealousy is offset only by their love for their mother. But it is Omar who is the object of Zana''s Jocasta-like passion while her husband Halim feels her slipping away from him as their beautiful daughter RGnia makes a tragic claim on her brothers'' affection. Vivid exotic and lushly atmospheric The Brothers is the story of a family''s disintegration of a changing city and the culture clash between the native-born inhabitants and a new immigrant group and of the future the next generation will make from the ruins.