{"title":"Toni Marques","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"o-beijo-infame","title":"The infamous kiss","description":"Living in the United States on the margins of society, struggling to integrate and shed the burden of being a \"foreigner.\" In their quest for integration, the shortest path for the characters in The Infamous Kiss is the internet and sex. Both tools of unlimited possibilities, they are the guiding thread of the four narratives that comprise this bold and provocative book, the second work of fiction by writer and journalist Toni Marques. Author of Tattooed Brazil and Other Worlds and the novel You: A Self-Help of Evil, Toni was a correspondent for the newspaper O Globo in New York, which serves as the setting for this novel disguised as a collection of short stories. In these four interconnected stories, the author weaves together sex, terror, and the most primal human desires as he portrays a group of Brazilians living in the United States, while poking at the American wound, discussing the tattoo inscribed by Bin Laden in the heart of New York, and the hypocritical puritanism of the world's largest pornography consumers. The book, like the internet, is a continuous experience. It has no beginning or end. The first story could be the first. The second, the last. The characters navigate each other's stories with the same lack of shame with which we enter and exit an online chat room, observes writer Julio Ludemir, who wrote the book's blurb: \"like the small contractor looking for lovers for his wife. Who feels like a suburbanite, and here in the American sense, not the Carioca one. Or like the prostitute from Valadares subjected to a sadomasochistic session, whose pleasure ends up dialoguing with History. All the characters seek the infamous kiss as if it were a holy grail.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176417673468,"sku":"9788501094148","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/24a3c470f635ab759a018cf484b420eb_042c9afe-b29b-4a73-96b0-fc7eb6b271aa.jpg?v=1778327028"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/toni-marques.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}