{"title":"Marcio Renato dos Santos","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"minda-au","title":"Minda-Au","description":"Heterogeneous stories, yet somehow linked by the constant presence of Curitiba. A city here filled with mystery and strangeness. Character and setting, she reveals, in the short stories of MINDA-AU, memories and longings of Marcio Renato dos Santos. The Curitiba-born journalist's debut in fiction, the book is heavily autobiographical. \"Minda-Au,\" my father Luiz and my mother Júlia say, \"was the first, maybe the second, at most the third word I spoke. The translation I found for a dromedary of a painting my grandmother used to make,\" reveals the author. The book opens with \"Sub,\" the story of Edward, a homeless man. For some unspecified reason, he loses his job and family, and makes the city streets his new home. Meanwhile, \"A guitarra de Jerez\" (The Guitar of Jerez) is about a guitar made in the city of the same name, in southern Spain, which supposedly carries a curse: all who play the instrument eventually die. In *The Spirit of the Forest*, Marisa is influenced by the existence of a certain spirit from a time when everything was just forest. In the short story *De Teleporte No. 2*, the narrator describes a dream, where he moves from one situation to another without any apparent logic. In *Os Homens Sem Alma*, it is the narrator's turn to give the story a poetic treatment, structured exclusively in short paragraphs. *For Those Who Seek a New Life* tells of a man from Curitiba who tries to make a living in Porto Alegre. But after five months, he returns to his hometown, unable to find a job or any friends. The last short story in the book is *Ali, Agora*, which tells of a young man in training and his relationship with his teacher, who eventually dies of cancer. Here, Marcio creates a world built on language, where expression is paramount. Powerful and contemporary, *MINDA-AU* brings together texts that portray the reality of today's Brazil, where poverty, unemployment, and despair in the face of a lack of prospects mingle with hope for a better future and the joy of love.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175422116092,"sku":"9788501090164","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/5e5956b4f31575d96da4965069bb61a6.jpg?v=1778324186"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/marcio-renato-dos-santos.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}