The Shape of Bones

Author:   Daniel Galera ,  Alison Entrekin
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9780241295731


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   06 April 2017
Format:   Paperback
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From one of Brazil's foremost literary voices comes a gripping, visceral new novel about youth, power and the nature of manhood A man rises at 5 a.m. and leaves his home. He does not wake his wife or child to bid them goodbye. He starts his car - an SUV filled with survival gear - but does not drive to his friend's house as planned. Instead, gliding through the sleeping streets of Porto Alegre, he is haunted by ghosts of himself: the fearless boy riding a battered stunt bike, the silent adolescent fascinated by violence, the obsessive young surgeon, the distant husband. As the dawn comes on and people slowly fill the streets, the man drives unthinkingly, inexorably, back to the old neighbourhood of his youth. What is pulling him back there? Perhaps the need to make something happen, perhaps just nostalgia. Or perhaps he is looking for absolution - from a crime he has carried in his heart for fifteen years.

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Author:   Daniel Galera ,  Alison Entrekin
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Hamish Hamilton Ltd
ISBN:  

9780241295731


ISBN 10:   0241295734
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   06 April 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Language:   English

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Vividly radiates a sense of unease and menace. I found myself constantly absorbed by it New Statesman on 'Blood-Drenched Beard' Coolly seductive, expansively mythic, with an unsettling sense of something indefinably out of joint beneath a veneer of small-town normality... A tensely atmospheric novel [with] a dangerous undertow Guardian on 'Blood-Drenched Beard'


Publisher's description. A visceral coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence and turbulent desire in the blistering Brazilian suburbs. Taut with the threat of sex and savagery, this is a book about bodies and their limits, about how it feels to be young and what it means to become a man. Penguin Vividly radiates a sense of unease and menace. I found myself constantly absorbed by it New Statesman on 'Blood-Drenched Beard' Coolly seductive, expansively mythic, with an unsettling sense of something indefinably out of joint beneath a veneer of small-town normality... A tensely atmospheric novel [with] a dangerous undertow Guardian on 'Blood-Drenched Beard'


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Daniel Galera (Author) Daniel Galera was born in Sao Paulo in 1979. He co-founded the influential publishing house Livros do Mal, and has translated David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith and Irvine Welsh into Brazilian Portuguese. He has published a collection of short stories and three novels, including Blood-Drenched Beard, as well as an acclaimed graphic novel (with Rafael Coutinho).

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