{"title":"Leandro Sarmatz","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"uma-fome","title":"A hunger","description":"A Porto Alegre native who has lived in São Paulo for almost a decade, Leandro Sarmatz is a journalist and holds a Master's degree in Literature. Having already been featured in collective anthologies, his first book of poetry, Logocausto, released in 2009, was critically acclaimed. Now, Leandro makes his prose debut with the collection of short stories, UMA FOME, a mature and confident work that features stories in which the author focuses, among other themes, on the lives of Jews during World War II, as well as their descendants. The grandson of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who settled in southern Brazil in the late 1920s, the author says that Jewish culture has always been an important part of his upbringing. The same culture that imbued authors as diverse as Kafka and Bashevis Singer, Philip Roth and Aaron Appelfeld, is integral to his development as a reader. Possessing \"an artistic wisdom very rare among young writers\" and a \"sober style, but never mere transparency,\" as writer João Gilberto Noll states in the book's blurb, Leandro oscillates between subtle, refined, almost cerebral humor and an indissoluble melancholy. There are 11 short stories, structured in two parts: \"Actors\" and \"Abandonments,\" the latter being the more robust, bringing together eight texts that deal precisely with a very particular kind of despondency. Either the characters are abandoned (by someone, by their talent, by their enthusiasm), or they abandon (someone, some ideal, some place). Some characters are actors, one of them playing Hitler in a film shot in the Brazilian jungle. Off the set, he's just another drunken autistic man. For another character, after witnessing the horrors of São Paulo's traffic brutality, \"the call to writing\" remains. For children, in front of their elders, the solution is to open books they \"think are for adult reading.\" The Holocaust, military dictatorships, and the fate of discredited patients are some of the themes the author addresses. Suffering, however, does not become a burden for the reader, thanks to the power of Leandro's language, which replenishes the Brazilian story with life and permanence.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175679705340,"sku":"9788501088994","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/403a3f1efbe3d135f2de954d295657c0.jpg?v=1778324335"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/leandro-sarmatz.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}