Nine Nights

Author: Bernardo Carvalho
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Format: Paperback

In August 1939, a brilliant, privileged twenty-seven-year-old American ethnologist commits suicide in Brazil, leaving behind seven letters suggesting different motives. To some he said he had contracted a terrible disease; to others he claimed he could not recover from his wife's affair with his brother (though he was neither married, nor had a brother). Intrigued by the mystery, our narrator gathers the fragmentary evidence and sets out to discover the truth, becoming obsessed, before long, with the idea that there was an eighth letter.Slipping between fact and fiction, reality and illusion, this striking and haunting novel by one of Brazil's most remarkable contemporary writers follwos one man's personal quest for certainty - a mission that slowly drives him mad; a Marlowe haunted by the fate of his own Kurtz.

About Bernardo Carvalho
Bernardo Carvalho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. He has been correspondent for A Folha De Sao Paulo in Paris and New York. He is the author of a number of other novels - most recently Mongolia, winner of the Premio Jabuti, Brazil's most prestigious literary prize - of which Nine Nights is the first to be published in English.
Bernardo Carvalho lives in Sao Paulo.

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SKU BK-9780099470335
Barcode # 9780099470335
Brand Vintage
Artist / Author Bernardo Carvalho
Shipping Weight 0.1700kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 1.400m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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