Antonio

With a baby on the way, Benjamim stumbles on a secret buried in his family's past. The people at its centre are gone, so he turns to three who knew them: his grandmother Isabel, an old friend of his grandfather called Haroldo, and Raul, who was close to his father. Each speaks for one part of the book, and from their differing recollections, tied to the class and politics of their times, he tries to reconstruct what happened.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

184 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil

First published

2007 by Editora 34

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9788573263770 (original)

9780811227384 (New Directions, United States)

9781782277873 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)