It takes the average reader 1 hour and 42 minutes to read A Brother's Love by Claudio Dunca
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The troubled story of a man in the spasmodic search of his brother, in the hope of being able to have back a piece of his family. A present but distant mother who has to deal with her emotional instability, a totally absent and uncarying father, overwhelmed by sexual instincts. The anger and the desire for revenge paradoxically serve as expedients to bring together the two brothers who have never had time to establish a sufficient family relationship and which, over time, results into a platonic love that dangerously nears incest.Incipit:DOThe world is a conquest but also a great responsibility. Those who avoid responsibility do not live in the world but live within themselves, selfishly.It was that kind of phrase that comes into your mind without a reason and lasts a long time without you being able to erase it from your memory. It is like a continuous stream of water that cannot be stopped, neither by the drought nor by the construction of an artificial dam that tries to cut off the restless gallop that comes towards you and you know that there ́s no time for doing anything and in less than a minute your body will be completely crushed like a peanut from a heavy stone.Excerpts:Not everything is illuminated. It is rather obscure and insecure, uncertain, indescribable, unexpected and irreversible once we are dressed in madness, a cloak of incongruities and false reality that leads people to fall into a chasm of no return, a non-place as she used to call it before getting to experience madness on her own.It was necessary to face the clutches of the immediate, despite the multitude of impediments that would have tried to bring him down along the road of the rediscovery of himself. He smiled when it occurred to him that, in the end, a door is the perfect starting point to start over again or put an end to something.Zalmoxis felt like he had a time bomb placed in the centre of his chest and the tickers approached with an inexorable tic-tac at the scheduled time for the explosion. "Why did you lower the blinds," asked Daniel curiously. "We are all the same in the dark," answered Zalmoxis whereas he was trying to find the slightest reflection in the eyes of his half-brother, in that penetrating darkness.Daniel asked him to turn up the blinds a bit, so they could look into each other ́s face. As he observed his brother, he thought he had a sarcophagus beside him, a dead body that tried to anchor him to bed, to immobilize him in that place and space where nothing else mattered. Pieces of sky are falling, covering the multifaceted mass that is the earth. They come off as if they were pieces of dried bark, chasing each other in that dance of death that hurts the sunlight and rips it like it ́s a big steel sword, the raindrops flood the crowns of the trees, vigilant of an unstable paradise always about to be catapulted away and destroyed by the slightest vibration, but ready to bathe with the blood of the sky, which nourishes its thirst from the horizon.
A Brother's Love by Claudio Dunca is 102 pages long, and a total of 25,704 words.
This makes it 34% the length of the average book. It also has 31% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 20 minutes to read A Brother's Love aloud.
A Brother's Love is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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