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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.
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Nine Nights, Bernardo Carvalho
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- 2007
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- Título
- Nine Nights
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Bernardo Carvalho
- Editorial
- William Heinemann
- Publicado en
- 2007
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Novela negra & Thriller, Romance, Temas psicológicos, Novelas de crimen, Ficción contemporánea, Romance contemporáneo, Escuela, Secretos, Misterioso, Indios, Cartas (, Suicidio, Adivinanzas y acertijos, América del Sur, Brasil, Amazonas, Viajes de Exploración
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- Calificación
- 2,85 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.