About her brother (おとうと) (2010)

"The bonds of family bind both ways; they bind us up, support us, help us, and they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself..."

About her brother examines, without resorting to melodrama or excess, or trite sentimentality, the relations between one disreputable person and his family.


Read my full review at Fridae, first published on 2 June 2010.