Have you ever seen a picture book with two titles and two covers, that can be read from back to front? Follow Firefly in his search for a flashing light and turn back at the end of the book to find the second storyline about Rabbit's escape.
Bernardo Carvalho Book order
September 5, 1960
Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian author whose prose delves into the intricate layers of human psychology and social dynamics. His style is characterized by penetrating introspection and meticulous narrative construction, drawing readers into profound explorations of identity and existence. Carvalho examines themes of memory, loss, and the search for meaning with exceptional sensitivity and intellectual depth. His work represents a significant contribution to contemporary Brazilian literature.
- 2014
- 2007
This powerful, award-winning Brazilian novel is reminiscent of Naipaul, Faulkner and Conrad in its exploration of human behaviour on the edges of civilization.In August 1939, a twenty-seven-year old American ethnologist, brilliant and from a solid background, mysteriously commits suicide in Brazil while studying among the tribes of the Amazonian basin. He leaves behind him seven letters, alleging different motives for his suicide: to some, he said he had contracted a terrible disease; to others, he said that he could not recover from his wife’s betrayal with his own brother (but he wasn’t married, and he didn’t have a brother).In the present, the narrator becomes obsessed with the search for an eighth letter he is convinced must have existed. As the reader observes, his search slowly drives him mad — a Marlowe haunted by the fate of his own Kurtz. This is truly a remarkable novel.
