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This powerful, award-winning Brazilian novel is reminiscent of Naipaul, Faulkner and Conrad in its exploration of human behaviour on the edges of civilization.In August 1939, a twenty-seven-year old American ethnologist, brilliant and from a solid background, mysteriously commits suicide in Brazil while studying among the tribes of the Amazonian basin. He leaves behind him seven letters, alleging different motives for his suicide: to some, he said he had contracted a terrible disease; to others, he said that he could not recover from his wife’s betrayal with his own brother (but he wasn’t married, and he didn’t have a brother).In the present, the narrator becomes obsessed with the search for an eighth letter he is convinced must have existed. As the reader observes, his search slowly drives him mad — a Marlowe haunted by the fate of his own Kurtz. This is truly a remarkable novel.
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Nine Nights, Bernardo Carvalho
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2007
- Vazba
- (pevná)
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- Titul
- Nine Nights
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Bernardo Carvalho
- Vydavatel
- William Heinemann
- Rok vydání
- 2007
- Vazba
- pevná
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Detektivky & Thriller, Romantika, Psychologická tématika, Detektivky, Současná literatura, Současná romantika, Škola, Tajemství, Tajemné, mysteriózní, Indiáni, Dopisy, Hádanky a rébusy, Sebevražda, Jižní Amerika, Brazílie, Amazonka, Amazonie, Objevitelské cesty
- Původní název
- Nove noites
- Hodnocení
- 2,85 z 5
- Anotace
- This powerful, award-winning Brazilian novel is reminiscent of Naipaul, Faulkner and Conrad in its exploration of human behaviour on the edges of civilization.In August 1939, a twenty-seven-year old American ethnologist, brilliant and from a solid background, mysteriously commits suicide in Brazil while studying among the tribes of the Amazonian basin. He leaves behind him seven letters, alleging different motives for his suicide: to some, he said he had contracted a terrible disease; to others, he said that he could not recover from his wife’s betrayal with his own brother (but he wasn’t married, and he didn’t have a brother).In the present, the narrator becomes obsessed with the search for an eighth letter he is convinced must have existed. As the reader observes, his search slowly drives him mad — a Marlowe haunted by the fate of his own Kurtz. This is truly a remarkable novel.