{"title":"Justo Navarro","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"irma-morte","title":"Sister Death","description":"Considered by many to be the best and most important work by Spanish writer and poet Justo Navarro, the disturbing novel \"Sister Death,\" awarded the Navarra Prize in 1989, recounts the experiences of a young man and his sister after their father's death. It is through the teenager's memories, his eyes, and his perception that we penetrate the decadent setting that sets the story. After a long and incurable bout of cancer, the boy's father dies, leaving him and his older sister to fend for themselves. Sharing the house that served as the stage for their father's decrepit and somber final moments, the two each go their own way, coping with death as best they can. The girl turns to prostitution, using the house as a meeting place for clients. As she digests the cruel reality of the life her sister has chosen for herself, an unparalleled apathy awakens in the teenager a taste for a sad and perverse game: finding physical resemblances to her deceased father in the lovers who frequent her home. And, with the impassiveness of a ripper, he interprets each recognized piece—a shoulder, a back, a nose—as a sign that his father will return. We witness, also through the boy's eyes, the real estate boom deforming the neighborhood that cradled his childhood. One by one, the houses on the street are demolished, making way for modern developments that will house more families. A metaphorical representation of the decay that grips the family and the realization of the inexorable fates the brothers have mapped out for themselves. As the teenager surrenders to his newfound coldness, introspection gives way to suspense, and the reader is faced with a disturbing question: is the narrator, this voice that guides us, merely a victim overcome by dark reveries or an inhuman rebel? Justo Navarro offers a masterful exercise in constructive precision in an atmosphere of unsettling perversity. Dark and fascinating, SISTER DEATH is an intense novel by a narrator of extreme originality.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175498268924,"sku":"9788501082008","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/4f0aba7e9f1516bbeca4925629d89c7e.jpg?v=1778326533"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/justo-navarro.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}