Presenter, journalist and author Christine Westermann loves books. Here she presents her new discovery every two weeks. This time: the moving family drama “Brüderchen” by Clara Dupont-Monod.
Christine Westermann
How does that work? I thought to myself while reading “Brüderchen” that you must recommend this novel with everything you have. What I have: passion and enthusiasm. And the vague feeling it won’t work that way. To beat a loud drum for such a tender, fragile family history as described in “Brother”? Which still comes with such emotional power that I might even be at a loss for the right words?
Somewhere in a small town in the French Cevennes, a little boy is born into a happy family. Father, mother, two children, the son nine, his sister seven.