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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
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
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- Titel
- Nine Nights
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Bernardo Carvalho
- Verlag
- William Heinemann
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Romantik, Psychologische Thematik, Krimi, Gegenwartsliteratur, Zeitgenössische Liebesromane, Schule, Geheimnisse, Geheimnisvoll, mysteriös, Indianer, Briefe, Selbstmord, Rätsel, Brasilien, Südamerika, Amazonas, Amazonasfluss, Entdeckungsreisen
- Originaltitel
- Nove noites
- Bewertung
- 2,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.