Barco a Seco

Thrown out by the needy household that took him in, an orphan seizes a strange chance, buries his origins and rises to become a connoisseur. His subject is an enigmatic painter who left almost no trace except seascapes daubed on boat planks and cigar-box lids. The connoisseur wants to recover the real artist behind the legend, even though the cheap myth is what sells. Haunted by the sea himself and by a history he keeps hidden, he struggles not to dissolve into the man he studies.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

192 pages in the original

Set in

Brazil

First published

2001 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9788535901238 (original)