Two Brothers

Name: Two Brothers
Author: Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon
ISBN: 9781616558567

by Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon

Twin brothers Omar and Yaqub may share the same features, but they could not be more different from one another. And the possessive love of their mother, Zana, stirs the troubled waters between them even more. After a brutally violent exchange between the young boys, Yaqub, “the good son,” is sent from his home in Brazil to live with relatives in Lebanon, only to return five years later as a virtual stranger to the parents who bore him, his tensions with Omar unchanged. Family secrets engage the reader in this profoundly resonant story about identity, love, loss, deception, and the dissolution of blood ties. Set in the port city of Manaus on the riverbanks of the Amazon, Two Brothers celebrates the vibrant life and diversity of Brazil.…

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"Twin brothers Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon, who work exceptionally well together (see: the mind-bending limited series “Daytripper”) adapt a novel by Milton Hatoum about twin brothers who despise one another. This graphic novel, set mostly in and around a decaying manse outside a small Brazilian town, moodily maps one family’s secrets, longings and long-harbored grudges over three generations. Bá’s black and white art features a thick line that lends his lush gardens, overstuffed rooms and crowded streets an oppressive sense of heavy, choking dread."

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