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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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- Pubblicato
- 2007
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- Titolo
- Nine Nights
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Bernardo Carvalho
- Editore
- William Heinemann
- Pubblicato
- 2007
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Gialli & Thriller, Letteratura romantica, Temi psicologici, Gialli, Narrativa contemporanea, Romance contemporaneo, Scuola, Segreti, Misterioso, Indiani, Lettere, Suicidio, Indovinelli e rompicapi, Brasile, America del Sud, Amazonia, Viaggi di Esplorazione
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- Valutazione
- 2,85 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.