My German Brother - Buarque, Chico
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'Fascinating, shape-shifting . . . This potent, meandering mixture of text and image, fact and fiction.' Daily Telegraph São Paulo; the 60s. Ciccio's life is full of challenges. And when he finds, buried in the library of his distant and larger-than-life father, a troubling letter dated 'December 21, 1931. Berlin', his existential crisis only intensifies. It seems that his father once had a child with a German woman, in Berlin - a son whose fate remains uncertain. Ciccio sets out on a mission to locate his half-brother, and to win his father's respect. But as Brazil's military government…mehr

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'Fascinating, shape-shifting . . . This potent, meandering mixture of text and image, fact and fiction.' Daily Telegraph São Paulo; the 60s. Ciccio's life is full of challenges. And when he finds, buried in the library of his distant and larger-than-life father, a troubling letter dated 'December 21, 1931. Berlin', his existential crisis only intensifies. It seems that his father once had a child with a German woman, in Berlin - a son whose fate remains uncertain. Ciccio sets out on a mission to locate his half-brother, and to win his father's respect. But as Brazil's military government cracks down on dissent, and rumours of arrests and disappearances spread, Ciccio finds that as he has been searching for his German brother he has taken his eye off his immediate family . . . Inspired by Chico Buarque's search for his own German half-brother, this novel is a fascinating blend of what happened, what might have happened, and sheer imagination. 'At the centre of this diabolically inventive novel there's the unmistakable beating of a broken human heart.' Literary Review 'Intriguing and inventive . . . [Buarque] unravels a tale that is part historical mystery, part intellectual and sexual coming of age.' Vanity Fair
Autorenporträt
Born 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Chico Buarque is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet. Although he first made his name as a musician, in 1968 Buarque was imprisoned by the Brazilian dictatorship for writing and composing the existential play Roda Viva. During the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with other artists in protest against the dictatorship. He is the author of numerous novels; in 2010 Spilt Milk won both of Brazil's leading literary prizes, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Portugal Telecom. He lives in Rio de Janeiro.