Noite Dentro da Noite

After the accident the family speaks of 'the Year of the Great White'. The boy recovers but has lost hold of his own identity and cannot shake the sense that the couple feeding and nursing him are strangers posing as his mother and father. The pills the doctor prescribes cloud his mind further. From this unsettled childhood the novel opens onto spies, guerrilla fighters, trappers and one or two natural freaks, and onto decades of Brazilian history.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

464 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil

First published

2017 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9788535928761 (original)