{"product_id":"the-brothers-by-asko-sahlberg","title":"'The Brothers' by Asko Sahlberg","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA tense, spare, cold-blooded Finnish novel about family, inheritance, violence and the rot that gathers inside silence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet in a remote farmhouse after the Finnish Civil War, it brings two brothers back into the same house — one returning from exile, one carrying the weight of staying behind — and lets old loyalties, resentments and buried crimes thaw only enough to become dangerous. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe novel has the compression of a stage play and the atmosphere of a folk tale left outside in winter: fathers, sons, brothers, land, hunger, betrayal, all stripped back until only the bone-structure remains. One for readers who like translated fiction that does not explain itself too much; morally grim, cleanly cut, and full of weather.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePeirene Press paperback, 2013 reprint. Very good copy with light shelf wear.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45717291073619,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-19T144907.111.png?v=1781844562","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-brothers-by-asko-sahlberg","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}