Solução de Dois Estados

Raquel is a heavy-set artist whose work draws on years of loathing her own body; her brother Alexandre runs gyms in the city's poorer districts. Their story went round the world when Raquel was attacked at a hotel panel on art and politics, which is why the filmmaker, herself scarred by the past, wants them on camera. Their interviews bring up schoolyard cruelty, a quarrel over money left by their parents and opposing views of sex, faith and blame, against Brazil's history from the 1990 economic plan that ruined the family to the hate-filled run-up to the 2018 vote.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

248 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, 1990–2018

First published

2020 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9788535933796 (original)