O Sol se Põe em São Paulo

Setsuko, who keeps a Japanese restaurant, tells a reluctant listener about three young people in 1940s Japan: a well-born woman, the heir to a factory, and a performer of farcical kyōgen theatre. Her tale keeps splitting into further stories, old and new, and the narrator finds himself investigating, from a garden pavilion in São Paulo to an internet café in Tokyo, from coffee estates to Pacific battlefields. A foot soldier, a member of the imperial family and the novelist Tanizaki cross his path, and the trail leads to dark episodes in both nations' past, and to the question of who he himself is.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

168 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, Japan

First published

2007 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9788535909777 (original)