{"title":"Luiz Ruffato","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"domingos-sem-deus-inferno-provisorio-vol-5","title":"Sundays Without God (Temporary Hell, Vol. 5)","description":"With Sundays Without God, the final installment of the pentalogy \"Temporary Hell,\" Luiz Ruffato concludes his ambitious project of literary reflection on the formation and evolution of the Brazilian proletariat from the 1950s to the beginning of the 21st century. Winner of major literary awards in Latin America and possessing a highly refined literary architecture that makes him one of the best authors of his generation, Ruffato continues the saga of a community of Italian immigrants and their descendants in the interior of Minas Gerais. Through the small, miserable lives of his characters—the invisible, the unfortunate, the exiled, the forgotten—the series, which began with \"Mamma, son tanto Felice\" (2005), \"O mundo enemies\" (2005)—both winners of the APCA Prize for best fiction—, \"Vista parcial da noite\" (2006), and \"O livro das impossibilidades\" (2008), presents a snapshot of the changes that have occurred in the country in recent decades. Like the previous volumes, Sundays Without God is composed of independent stories that form a mosaic. \"Each story is interwoven with other stories, and Brazilian history is present as atmosphere, not as a backdrop or defining substance. Therefore, with the completion of the last story, set in 2002, I bring this chapter of my literary journey to a close,\" explains the writer. Since The Book of Impossibilities, we have encountered its characters far from Cataguases or other nearby cities: many journeys escaping that part of Brazil \"stuck in time\" and \"without a future.\" Now we are offered some personal destinations, which seem emblematic of the diversity of migration driven by the hope of (perhaps) better days. Lives that face the harsh reality of departures, poor jobs, families formed with difficulty, and returns. These are narratives of loneliness, love, betrayal, unwanted children, endless work, and some achievements. Through flashbacks and memories, the reader of \"Hell Provisório\" rediscovers Beco de Zé Pinto, the Pomba River, and the interweaving of characters from the universe Ruffato has been building over time. \"Sundays Without God\" also introduces the novelty of characters already identified with the middle class who, not without amazement, interact with the proletariat. \"My characters' goal has always been to get ahead in life. They've always wanted to eat well, live well, consume. They've always wanted to be part of the capitalist world. Therefore, there's no glamorization of poverty on my part. Poverty is terrible; there's nothing romantic about it. The struggle was and is for better living conditions,\" says Ruffato, who, before becoming a journalist and writer, worked as a popcorn seller, bartender, haberdasher, textile worker, and lathe operator. And so, in this cruel scenario, so close and, at the same time, so far from all of us, Ruffato concludes this poignant portrait of the Brazilian proletariat, which seemed to be a debt of national literature.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175918944508,"sku":"9788501075123","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/3e3977f672ee019fc38521e2a06f3fab.jpg?v=1778322575"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/luiz-ruffato.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}