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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
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2007
- Oprawa
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- Tytuł
- Nine Nights
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Bernardo Carvalho
- Wydawca
- William Heinemann
- Rok wydania
- 2007
- Oprawa
- twarda
- Seria
- Tagi
- Tematyka psychologiczna, Kryminały & Sensacja, Literatura współczesna, Szkoła, Tajemnice, Tajemnice & Zagadki, Rdzenni Amerykanie, Listy, Zagadki, Samobójstwo, Ameryka Południowa, Brazylia, Amazonka & Amazonia, Podróże odkrywcze
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- Nove noites
- Ocena
- 2,85 z 5
- Opis
- 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.