Neither memoir, travelogue, essay nor pure fiction, the book circles the narrator's dead father, a man born in 1906, blending true episodes with freely imagined ones and never marking which is which. A visit to Parnaíba, where the father was young, yields notes meant for invention rather than fact, and a reading of Kafka's famous letter becomes a way of thinking about this other father and son. The whole is laid out on the melody of a cradle song the father used to sing, one chapter per note.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 280 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Brazil
- First published
- 2010 by Bertrand Brasil
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
9788528614435 (original)