Ties of blood that at the same height in a family tree can end up narrowing to the point of drowning. Cainism is the order of the day for an inheritance, for an ambition or for a widespread envy for as long as one has memory.
Brotherly does not always mean understanding and good vibes. That is why it never hurts to approach a book like this one that tries to go to the essence, to the links that unite despite all circumstances.
After the death of their parents, the brothers of Miguel, a forty-year-old man with Down syndrome, must decide who will take care of him. And it is the older of the two boys, a misanthropic divorced college professor who has stayed away from his hometown for years, who surprises his sisters by offering to take responsibility.
Miguel is barely a year younger than he is, and the memory of the affection and complicity they shared in childhood leads him to believe that the new situation may save him from the apathy in which he is immersed and redeem him from the prolonged estrangement.
However, sharing daily life with Miguel brings unexpected problems, and the silence of the old family farmhouse, lost in a remote and lonely village in the interior of Portugal, will inevitably confront him with the past and the complex relationship that surrounds him. join Miguel. My brother is a moving and beautiful novel that flees from sentimentality to offer us a lucid portrait of brotherly love.
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