My German Brother
(Sprache: Englisch)
'Fascinating, shape-shifting . . . This potent, meandering mixture of text and image, fact and fiction.' Daily Telegraph
São Paulo; the 60s. Ciccio's life is full of challenges. And when he finds, buried in the library of his distant and...
São Paulo; the 60s. Ciccio's life is full of challenges. And when he finds, buried in the library of his distant and...
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'Fascinating, shape-shifting . . . This potent, meandering mixture of text and image, fact and fiction.' Daily TelegraphSão Paulo; the 60s. Ciccio's life is full of challenges. And when he finds, buried in the library of his distant and larger-than-life father, a troubling letter dated 'December 21, 1931. Berlin', his existential crisis only intensifies.
It seems that his father once had a child with a German woman, in Berlin - a son whose fate remains uncertain. Ciccio sets out on a mission to locate his half-brother, and to win his father's respect. But as Brazil's military government cracks down on dissent, and rumours of arrests and disappearances spread, Ciccio finds that as he has been searching for his German brother he has taken his eye off his immediate family . . .
Inspired by Chico Buarque's search for his own German half-brother, this novel is a fascinating blend of what happened, what might have happened, and sheer imagination.
'At the centre of this diabolically inventive novel there's the unmistakable beating of a broken human heart.' Literary Review
'Intriguing and inventive . . . [Buarque] unravels a tale that is part historical mystery, part intellectual and sexual coming of age.' Vanity Fair
Autoren-Porträt von Chico Buarque
Born 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Chico Buarque is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet. Although he first made his name as a musician, in 1968 Buarque was imprisoned by the Brazilian dictatorship for writing and composing the existential play Roda Viva. During the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with other artists in protest against the dictatorship. He is the author of numerous novels; in 2010 Spilt Milk won both of Brazil's leading literary prizes, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Portugal Telecom. He lives in Rio de Janeiro.Praise for Chico Buarque:
'Chico Buarque is at the forefront of a wave of writing that should make you rethink everything you thought you knew about South American literature' Jonathan Franzen
'One of the outstanding Brazilian novelists of our time' Financial Times
'Try to imagine that Bob Dylan and Ian McEwan were the same person. That is Buarque' Sunday Times
'Chico Buarque has crossed a chasm with his writing, and arrived at the other side. To the side where one finds work executed with mastery' José Saramago
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chico Buarque
- 208 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,5 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Alison Entrekin
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1509806466
- ISBN-13: 9781509806461
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.04.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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