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Teeth Under the Sun
Ignacio de Brandao
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Description for Teeth Under the Sun
Hardback. Translator(s): Bailey, Cristina Ferreira-Pinto. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 454.
A modern-day Don Quixote and an exile in his own hometown, the protagonist of Teeth Under the Sun is kept from writing by a conspiracy (real? imagined?) designed to prevent him from revealing the truth about the town's strange status quo and violent past.In a place where people have abandoned their houses for tiny apartments in the confines of new high-rises, the narrator walks the almost empty streets, remembering better times and meeting figures from his past: his ex-wife, his son, writers, friends, and revolutionaries. And all of this is interspersed with his memories of the movies Fact and fiction, ... Read more
A modern-day Don Quixote and an exile in his own hometown, the protagonist of Teeth Under the Sun is kept from writing by a conspiracy (real? imagined?) designed to prevent him from revealing the truth about the town's strange status quo and violent past.In a place where people have abandoned their houses for tiny apartments in the confines of new high-rises, the narrator walks the almost empty streets, remembering better times and meeting figures from his past: his ex-wife, his son, writers, friends, and revolutionaries. And all of this is interspersed with his memories of the movies Fact and fiction, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564784384
SKU
V9781564784384
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99-15
About Ignacio de Brandao
Ignacio de Loyola Brandao began his career writing film reviews and went on to work for one of the principal newspapers in Sao Paulo. Initially banned in Brazil, his novel Zero went on to win the prestigious Brasilia Prize and become a controversial bestseller. Brandao is the author of more than a half-dozen works of fiction, including Zero, Teeth Under ... Read more
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