Meu Irmão, Eu Mesmo

João, the black sheep who unsettled his small-town São Paulo family, found his greatest ally in Cláudio, the middle son: the good-looking, open-minded favourite, who after João came out became his fiercest defender and kept him going emotionally, politically and with money. When João learns he is HIV-positive he assumes his own end is near. It is Cláudio, though, who is felled by an aggressive cancer of the lymph system. João tells of their closeness and of staying at his brother's side to the last, against the activism, gains and fear of a decade shaken by AIDS.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

256 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, 1990s

First published

2023 by Alfaguara

Author's age

79 when first published

ISBN

9788556521699 (original)