The shape of bones
Galera, Daniel, 1979-2019
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A man rises at 5 a.m. and leaves his home. He does not wake his wife or child to bid them goodbye. He starts his car - an SUV filled with survival gear - but does not drive to his friend's house as planned. Instead he glides through the sleeping streets of Porto Alegre, haunted by ghosts of himself: the fearless boy riding a battered stunt bike, the silent adolescent fascinated by bodies and violence, the obsessive young surgeon, the distant husband. As the dawn comes on and people slowly fill the streets, the man drives unthinkingly, inexorably, toward the old neighbourhood of his youth. What is pulling him back there? Perhaps the need to make something happen, perhaps just nostalgia. Or perhaps the search for absolution - from a crime he has carried in his heart for 15 years.
Main title:
The shape of bones / Daniel Galera ; translated by Alison Entrekin.
Author:
Galera, Daniel, 1979-, authorEntrekin, Alison, translator
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2019.
Collation:
228 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Portuguese.This translation originally published: UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2017.
ISBN:
9780241964880 (pbk)
Dewey class:
869.35G
LC class:
PQ9698.417.A4
Local class:
FT PbkAFPBK
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
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BRN:
2510510
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