O Pai da Menina Morta
“The Dead Girl's Father” (title translated by AI)
Tiago Ferro (born 1976)
English editions
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A bright, loving girl of eight dies without warning, and the book follows what her death does to her father, to the rest of the family and to the parents' friends. It is built from fragments that together form a shifting picture of grief. Beyond mourning, the father's account takes in how he sees himself, sex, humour, confessions, memories and invention, handled with a knowing irony. For him the loss remakes the world from the ground up: from the funeral on, that is who he is to everyone, the man whose daughter died.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 176 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Brazil
- First published
- 2018 by Todavia
- Author's age
- 42 when first published
- ISBN
9788593828508 (original)