My German brother /

My German brother /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Buarque, Chico, 1944- author.
Uniform title:	Irmão alemão. English
Edition:	First American edition.
Imprint:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. ©2018
Description:	199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Holanda, Sérgio Buarque de, -- 1902-1982 -- Fiction. Holanda, Sérgio Buarque de, -- 1902-1982. Fathers and sons -- Fiction. Illegitimate children -- Fiction. Fathers and sons. Illegitimate children. Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction. Germany -- Berlin. Fiction. Biographical fiction. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11616320
Related Items:	Translation of: O irmão alemão.

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Other authors / contributors:	Entrekin, Alison, translator.
ISBN:	9780374161200 0374161208
Notes:	"Originally published in Portuguese in 2014 by Companhia das Letras, Brazil, as O Irmão Alemão. English translation originally published in 2018 by Picador, Great Britain."
Summary:	"An uproarious novel about a Brazilian man's often sordid, lifelong search for a possibly imaginary half-brother, born in Germany just before the Second World War"-- "In 1960s São Paulo, teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a scholar, cold and aloof, has spent his life acquiring them; his mother, by necessity, has spent her life organizing them. Ciccio himself feels like an afterthought in his own family, largely left to his own criminal devices. Though forbidden to touch any of the volumes in the library, Ciccio sneaks off with The Golden Bough one day only to discover a decades-old letter hidden inside the book, addressed to his father from a mysterious woman in Berlin. Ciccio becomes convinced that his father must have had an affair with this woman in the years before World War II -- an affair that produced a son, a German brother who, real or imaginary, Ciccio becomes obsessed with tracking down. Thus begins a fractured coming-of-age tale, tawdry and epic by turns, about a lifelong obsession: one man's quest not only for his mythical sibling but for his father's respect"--

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