Resistance

His elder brother was adopted, and the narrator, Sebastián, both needs and fears to say so. Their parents, psychoanalysts in Buenos Aires when the military seized power in 1976, took in the baby shortly before escaping to São Paulo, where further children were born. For all their reading of Winnicott, raising adopted and biological sons proves harder than theory, and the household grows tense. Looking back, the younger son questions that violent era and tries to tell his family's story anew.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

144 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Argentina, Brazil, 1970s–2010s

First published

2015 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9788535926378 (original)

9781999859329 (Charco Press, United Kingdom)