Reprodução

The man called only the student of Chinese was about to fly to China, by chance alongside a former teacher of his, when the police detained him. Under questioning he holds forth against every minority he can name, a creature of online comment threads and Wikipedia learning. Yet he is not the only one with a strange tale: the officer interrogating him has a puzzling story about parenthood, a colleague is working undercover in an evangelical church, and the teacher is going back to China hoping to live her ruined childhood again through an orphan.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Novel

Length

168 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil

First published

2013 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9788535923230 (original)