WE WERE BROTHERS

Book ID/图书代码： 00342515B84286

English Summary/英文概要： Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family’s deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. Barry left Chattanooga for New England and a life in the arts; Tommy stayed put and became a mortgage banker. From attitudes about race, to food, politics, and money, the brothers began to think so differently that they could no longer find common ground. For nearly forty years, there was more strife between them than affection.

After one particularly fractious conversation when Barry was in his late fifties and Tommy was in his early sixties, their fragile relationship fell apart. With the raw emotions that so often surface when we talk of our siblings, Barry recalls how they were finally able to traverse that great divide and reconcile their troubled brotherhood before it was too late.

We Were Brothers, written and illustrated by preeminent artist Barry Moser, is a powerful story of reunion told with candor and regret that captures the essence of sibling relationships, with all their complexities, contradictions, and mixed blessings.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Barry和Tommy两兄弟出生于田纳西州的查塔努加，睡在同一个卧室，上同一所学校，也深受家庭种族主义和反犹太主义的毒害。但随着他们一天一天长大，他们的观点和道路也离得越来越远。Barry离开查塔努加到了新英格兰从事艺术事业；Tommy则留在原地成为了一名抵押贷款银行经理。兄弟俩在种族、食物、政治、金钱方面的观念变得越来越不一致。在近40年的相处过程中，他们之间关系可以说是紧张多于互相欣赏。

在Barry60不到，Tommy刚60出头的时候，一次特别的谈话令兄弟间的关系破裂。Barry在书中带着感情回忆了兄弟俩最后跨越鸿沟，相互谅解的过程。

本书由著名艺术家Barry Moser写作并创作插图，讲述了一个有关团聚的动人故事，抓住了复杂、矛盾又充满祝福的兄弟情谊的精髓所在。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：“（一部）坦率、直接的家庭回忆录……语言风趣，插图优美，内容写实，令人印象深刻。作者在回忆往昔的过程中直面痛苦的回忆，带着遗憾讲述了自己的故事。”——Booklist

“作者回忆录中的语言和他的绘画作品一样精致、细腻。”——Birmingham Magazine

“作者以一种细致的自省态度描写了野蛮的种族主义和兄弟之间的野蛮相处。在他努力理解自己过去的同时，也和读者一起深入地审视这美好的生活。”——Ann Patchett

“[A] valiantly forthright, superbly illustrated family memoir . . . In both riveting language and breathtaking drawings, at once acutely realistic and powerfully expressive, Moser confronts and explicates painful memories and regrets as he tells with profound retrospective insight the story of his Jim Crow-era, Chattanooga, Tennessee, boyhood.” —Booklist

“This boyhood memoir reveals much more than it ever explicitly states, with its tight focus on boyhood, brotherhood, estrangement, and reconciliation . . . With a prose style that is precise, understated, and that rarely veers toward sentimentality, Moser describes coming of age in Chattanooga in an era permeated by racism and where any sign of oddness or weakness encouraged bullying . . . With masterful narrative control, Moser reveals the narrowness of perspective as well as the limitations of memory.” —Kirkus Reviews

“The words in [Moser’s] memoir are as finely wrought and sensitive as his drawings.”— Birmingham Magazine

“Barry Moser writes about the savagery of racism and the savagery between brothers with thoughtful introspection. In his efforts to understand both what he did and what was done to him, he has given us a beautiful and deeply compassionate examination of life.” —Ann Patchett

“Barry Moser is a delightful storyteller--his descriptions of the time and place of his childhood are as vivid as his wonderful famed drawings. We Were Brothers is an honest and moving account that explores how differing beliefs can tear people apart; it also explores how a shared history and memories of a particular time can pave the way for acceptance and forgiveness.” —Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life

“We Were Brothers, Barry Moser’s beautiful--and beautifully illustrated--new book, tells the wrenching and redeeming story of brothers who take different paths and yet ultimately find their ways back to each other. Barry grows to be appalled by the racism he grew up accepting in Chattanooga, while Tommy, his angry and violent brother, embraces it. Their careful reconciliation after decades of strife and avoidance is sad, moving, and joyful all at the same time.” —Andrew Hudgins, author of The Joker

“We Were Brothers is a poignant look a twentieth-century Southern childhood, captured in all of its complexities both through words infused with a sly humor and drawings that convey their subjects’ souls. Beyond that, this is a narrative of difficult questions, as the author grapples with the experiences and ideals that drove the two Moser brothers apart. Ultimately, it’s a story of reconciliation, as well as a moving document of an inherited, inhabited world.” —Beth Ann Fennelly

“A memoir worth reading . . . [We Were Brothers is] a good story, as simple and complicated as most people’s lives, and Moser inspires confidence and teaches the lessons that he has learned without assuming the podium or the stage . . . Moser has rendered a compassionate view of a passing world, mysterious and complicated as the South we know from the fiction of Welty or the photographs and constructions of William Christenberry.” —Shenandoah Literary Review (blog)

About the Author/作者介绍： BARRY MOSER，出生于田纳西州查塔努加。他的作品曾在国家艺术博物馆、大都会博物馆、大英博物馆、维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆等全球博物馆内展出。他曾经为350多本图书绘制插图或进行设计，包括《大白鲸》《弗兰肯斯坦》《神曲》《英王钦定圣经》等。为《爱丽斯漫游仙境》一书设计的作品曾获得国家图书馆。

BARRY MOSER was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His work is represented in the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and other museums around the world. He has illustrated and/or designed over 350 books, including Moby-Dick, Frankenstein, The Divine Comedy, and the King James Bible. His edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland won a National Book Award. He is currently Irwin and Pauline Alper Glass Professor of Art and the printer to the college at Smith College.

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