Blood-drenched Beard - Hardcover

Galera, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670068349 ISBN 13: 9780670068340

Verlag: Hamish Hamilton, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

 The young man’s father, dying, at last tells him the truth about his grandfather – or at least the truth as he knows it.  The mean old gaucho was murdered by some fellow villagers in Garopaba, a town on the Atlantic now famous for its surfing and fishing.  It was during a Sunday dance at a community hall. The lights went out suddenly and when they came up, his grandfather was lying on the ground in a pool of blood…or so the story goes.

It is as if his father has given him a deathbed challenge.  And his girlfriend has just left him, so he has no strong ties.  He is a great ocean swimmer, so why not strike out for Garopaba, and see what he can discover?  The young man travels up the coast, finds an apartment by the water, and begins to build a simple new life, taking his father’s old dog as a companion. He swims in the sea every day, makes a few friends, falls into a relationship, begins to make enquiries.

But information doesn’t come easily. A rare neurological condition means that the young man doesn’t recognize the faces of people he’s met – leading frequently to awkwardness and occasionally to violence. And the people who do know about his grandfather are fearful to give anything away.  Life becomes complicated for him in Garopaba, and even dangerous.

Steeped in tension, atmosphere and the sultry allure of south Brazil, Daniel Galera’s masterfully spare and powerful prose unfolds a story of discovery that feels mythic, elemental and archetypal – a wise and potent display of storytelling sorcery that  announces one of Brazil's very greatest young writers as a blazing new literary talent to the English-speaking world.

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  Daniel Galera is a Brazilian writer, translator, and editor. He was born in Sao Paolo, but spent most of his life in Porto Alegre, only returning to Sao Paulo in 2005. He has published four novels in Brazil to great acclaim, the latest of which, Blood-Drenched Beard, was awarded the 2013 Sao Paolo Literature Prize. In addition to writing, he has also translated the work of Zadie Smith and Jonathan Safran Foer into Portuguese.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hamish Hamilton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0670068349
• ISBN 13: 9780670068340
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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