A Poison Apple

He is eighteen, in uniform in the south of Brazil, and his first love wants him beside her in São Paulo when Nirvana play the Morumbi. Deserting would mean military prison. Years later the decision looks different in the light of what followed: Cobain's suicide the next spring, and the slaughter in Rwanda, told through Immaculée Ilibagiza, who lived through three months hidden in a tiny washroom alongside seven women. Part fiction, part essay, part memoir, the book is the middle volume of a trilogy on private lives and public catastrophes.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

120 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, Rwanda, 1990s

First published

2013 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9788535923117 (original)

9781784702953 (Vintage, United Kingdom)