Mon Frere

Description: Back in Smalånger, Jana Kippo finds Bror, her twin brother, who still lives on the old family farm and has fallen into alcoholism. The previous summer, the discovery of Maria's body, coveted by all the men in the village, inflamed the small community. Jana decides to stay and gets a job as a home help – the same one that Maria had. Thanks to this position, the young woman will reconnect with people she had not seen since her adolescence. These encounters as well as her passionate relationship with John shake up her memory and awaken buried memories – a lost child; an incident with a pitchfork; Bror, who should have succeeded in his life; an abusive father; a mother who is too self-effacing... A family novel, dark, raw and without affect, which tells of memory, passion, atonement and acceptance of the past. A unique writing, of brutal simplicity, and spiced with the violent charm of the far north.