Pai, Pai

In Ribeirão Bonito, João sees his father José bully his mother, who comes from poorer stock, and feels José's fists himself for being a gentle, girlish child. The seminary is his way out of the house. Later he leaves it, and Brazil under the generals, roams through Latin American upheavals and the American counterculture, and gives himself to writing and art, never free of the man who raised him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

252 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, United States

First published

2017 by Alfaguara

Author's age

73 when first published

ISBN

9788556520531 (original)