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Nine Nights
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ISBN
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9780099470335
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Publisher
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Vintage Books
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Subject
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Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
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Binding
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PAPERBACK
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Pages
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224
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Year
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2008
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Description
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.From the Hardcover edition.
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Author Biography
Bernard Carvalho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. He has been correspondent for La Folha de Sao Paolo in Paris and New York. He is the author of Aberration and the novels Les Ivrognes et Les Somnambules, Les Initiales and Mongolia.From the Hardcover edition.
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