Brother In The Land

by Robert Swindells

Book Overview

When a nuclear bomb wrecks his hometown and rips his family apart, 15-year-old Danny has to learn the art of survival and fast. This title offers activities designed to support the KS3 Framework for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140373004
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Puffin
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A well written, tragic and moving book

Brother in the Land was part of our english class last year...but it really made me thoughtful and I enjoyed reading it. I can only recommend it to everyone.

Here today, gone tomorrow.

"One minute everything was normal, and then it was gone." This is a first person account of life after a nuclear holocaust. The narrator is an English boy called Danny. He recounts all the things that have happened to him since the holocaust and the grim struggle that life has become. This is a good book because it is written by someone who actually experienced what happened. The narrator makes each day feel tense and uncertain. Danny's life is grim, insecure and torturous. One of the interesting things about this book are the invented names used to describe the various species of survivor: "Goths", "Spacers", "Terminals", "Badgers" and "Purples". It's the beginning of a new language. Grief and despair pervade this book. Nuclear weapons have utterly destroyed civilization, England has been turned into a poisonous, desolate wasteland. The narrator has written this account to warn future generations (if any) not to do it again.When you finish reading "Brother in the Land" read "Riddley Walker" by Russell Hoban. That book is also a first person account by a boy in post-holocaust England. Set thousands of years in the future, the people live a primitive life with dim legends of the world as we know it.

THIS IS A DEPRESSING BOOK, BUT IS ALSO REALISTIC

OUR WHOLE CLASS READ THE BOOK AND RAISED ALL OF OUR AWARENESSES ABOUT THE NUCLEAR WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN . WE GOT INTO GROUPS IN OUR CLASS AND DISCUSSED THE PERSONALITY OF THE MAIN CHARACTER "DANNY" . WE ALSO DISCUSSED THAT SWINDELLS , THE AUTHOR , SENT ACROSS MANY MESSAGES ABOUT THE WORLD TODAY . THE WHOLE CLASS AGREED THAT THE BOOK "BROTHER IN THE LAND IS VERY POWERFUL AND WELL WRITTEN.

DEPRESSING but TRUTHFUL

This book gives a very good image of what a nucleur holucast would result in. I like the way that this book describes the survivers, and although the book has no hope, you could nearly always find hope in the hearts of the survivors. I'm dissapointed that this book is out of print, since I think that everybody needs to know the consequences of nucleur war, and then, there mght be a chance of it not happening.

Great and amazingly powerful story.

This is about as good as it can get. The visceral and deppressive moments in this book can compare to 1984. Unfortunately, it is out of print because no one is interested in the prospect of nuclear war anymore. They act as if it doesn't exist. It is a good reminder of the holocaust that could always happen.