Glória

In the Alencar Costa e Oliveira household nobody says what they mean; conversation is all teasing, inverted meanings and stock phrases, chief among them the cry that 'God is, was, a stutterer' whenever dinner burns or the boys misbehave. Generation after generation, its members are carried off not by sickness or mishap but by heartbreak. Daniel, Abel and Benjamin come of age in present-day Rio, in a neighbourhood overrun by ants and an online chat room where everything is ironic, in a playful book full of allusions and odd footnotes.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

264 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil

First published

2012 by 7Letras

Author's age

24 when first published

ISBN

9788575779842 (original)

9781908670854 (Peirene Press, United Kingdom)