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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2017 |
| Seiten | 240 |
| Format | 18,6 x 23,5 x 1,8 cm |
| Trade paperback (UK) | |
| Gewicht | 318 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0241978130 |
| EAN | 9780241978139 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24197813EA |
§Brazilian-born doctor André Cabral is living in London when one day he receives a letter from his home country, which he left nearly thirty years ago. A letter he keeps in his pocket for weeks, but tells no one about.
The letter prompts André to remember the days of his youth - torrid afternoons on Ipanema beach with his listless teenage friends, parties in elegant Rio apartments, his after-school job at his father's surgery plastic practice - and, above all, his secret infatuation with the daughter of his family's maid, the intoxicating Luana. Unable to resist the pull of the letter, André embarks on a journey back to Brazil to rediscover his past.
Rezension:
An arresting debut about memory and trauma. In this respect and others, it resembles Julian Barnes's Man Booker-winner, The Sense of an Ending. Sauma, whose style manages to be both spare and rich, is clear-eyed about the social and racial divides in Rio Daily Telegraph