The Brother
By Rein Raud
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Winner of the Eduard Vilde Literary Award
The Brother opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of menmen who recently cheated the stranger's supposed sister out of her inheritance and mother's estate. 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 . . .
The first novel of Rein Raud's to appear in English, The Brother is, in Raud's own words, a spaghetti western told in poetic prose, simultaneously paying tribute to both Clint Eastwood and Alessandro Baricco. With its well-drawn characters and quick moving plot, it takes on more mythic aspects, lightly touching on philosophical ideas of identity and the ruthless way the world is divided into winners and losers.
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 Tõnu Õnnepalu and The Cavemen Chronicle by Mihkel Mutt.
Rein Raud
Born in 1961 in Tallinn, Estonia, Rein Raud is a novelist, journalist, translator and academic with expertise in Japanese literature and philosophy. His novels, e Brother (2008) and e Reconstruction (2012, winner of the Estonian State Prose Award), have been translated into English, and his work on the theory of culture, Meaning in Action (2016), in English. He co-authored Practices of Selfhood (2015) in English along with Zygmunt Bauman. He has translated Dante’s Vita nuova as well as books from a number of Japanese thinkers into Estonian. He teaches at universities in Estonia and Finland, and has hosted a philosophical talk show on Estonian TV.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This short novel is dubbed a "spaghetti western" by its Estonian author. Although I have seen movies of that genre, I've never really studied them as a fan so I may have missed some of the references. (There is a brief mention in the acknowledgements for those of us who missed things.) But we used to watch them at parties in the 1980's. Maybe those viewings left something buried in my sub-conscious because I really enjoyed this book without really knowing why. Take away any knowledge of "spaghetti westerns"and it is still a darned good read.