Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The Last Brother

Appanah, Nathacha. (2011). The Last Brother. Translated by Geoffrey Strachan. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux.

Inspired by the largely unknown story of 1,500 Jews who fled Europe only to be imprisoned in Mauritius from 1940 to 1945 after their ship was refused entry into Palestine (then under British rule), the novel recounts the heartfelt friendship between two boys: David, a Czech orphan, and Raj, an Indian-Mauritian grieving for the two brothers he lost in a flash flood. 

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