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The Hundred Brothers
''The Hundred Brothers'' is a 1997 novel by American author Donald Antrim. The substance of the novel consists of the nocturnal reunion of one hundred brothers in the library of their ancestral home, as they attempt to locate and inter the ashes of their deceased father, an insane monarch, drink heavily, and manifest a variety of mildly homicidal sibling rivalries. The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.penfaulkner.org/award-for-fiction/past-award-winners-finalists/ )〕 In his introduction to the novel, Jonathan Franzen wrote, "''The Hundred Brothers'' is possibly the strangest novel ever published by an American. Its author, Donald Antrim, is arguably more unlike any other living writer than any other living writer."
== Plot summary ==
In the book's opening sentence Antrim names all ninety-nine of the brothers who have come together for drinks and dinner, bad masculine behavior, and avoidance of the work of giving their father's funeral ashes a proper burial. This opening sentence also contains the book's first and last reference to a particular woman, Jane, who is responsible for the disappearance of the hundredth brother. "It's as if, according to the novel's logic, the mere naming of a Significant Other is enough to exclude a brother from the narrative."〔
The story takes place in the enormous library of the family's ancestral mansion, from the window of which the campfires of homeless people can be seen in the "forlorn valley" outside the property's walls, and the action is confined to a single night, punctuated here and there by glimpses of the family's history of brother-on-brother cruelty and violence. The incidents that occur on this single night are often farcical, often frustrating to the story's narrator, Doug—who is one of the hundred brothers—and an intense, vivid specificity is maintained throughout the narrative. "Taken together (episodes ) amount to a feat of choreography, in which Doug, the self-appointed Corn King, is the lead dancer who engages all the others as he makes his way around the library."〔
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