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Bella, now a psychiatrist, tells of growing up with her brother André in what began as an idyllic home. Bit by bit it fractured: their father, it emerged, was not André's own and treated him harshly, and death entered the family. Brother and sister held on to each other until André went missing. Trained to probe other people's recollections, Bella now doubts her own: which of them happened, and which did she invent? Absences and leave-takings run through a book with a strain of magic realism, including a statue that talks and a girl named Luciana who has slept for years, longing for her vanished mother.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

330 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2007 by PQR-kultur

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9789529963188 (original)