The first history of the world

Name: The first history of the world
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SKU: 9788501031754
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Autor: Alberto Mussa

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Sinopse

Rio 1567. A murder. 400 inhabitants. 60 involved. The novel is based in part on the documentation of a real case: the first formal record of a murder in Rio de Janeiro, from 1567, a crime of passion, a story of adultery, which ensnared, among both accused and witnesses, a staggering 15% of the city's population (which numbered no more than 400). A delightful detective story, in which Brazil's founding myths, especially indigenous ones, associated with the very tradition of the detective novel genre, will be fundamental to solving the case. A book you won't want to put down. And here the speaker is not only the editor, honored to publish one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language today, but also a reader always in awe of the—increasingly rare—ability to imagine plots, to conceive stories, to shape Jerônimas and other characters; a reader eager for stories—more unusual every day—that take place in cities, on streets, on rivers, in the vicinity of a stone house, or on the precarious balance of a creek, stories that take place between people, even behind their backs, even with seven (or would it be eight?) arrows in their backs. Thus, instead of railing against literature's dominant taste for tormenting, burying, and internalizing itself, or speculating about the progressive and evident crumbling of the narrator's figure, I prefer to speak of Alberto Mussa, whose work, of unparalleled originality, already represents an inescapable landmark, an enclave of literary vitality; I prefer to deal particularly with this singular event, this one that we now have in our hands, unclassifiable, the book that one cannot stop reading: The First History of the World.

ISBN	978-850-103-175-4
Tradutor
Altura	210 mm
Largura	135 mm
Profundidade	14 mm
Lançamento	06/05/2014
Páginas	240

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Alberto Mussa

Alberto Mussa nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1961. Contista e romancista, recriou a mitologia dos antigos tupinambás, traduziu a poesia árabe pré-islâmica e escreveu, com Luiz Antonio Simas, uma história do samba de enredo. Além de figurar em listas de “melhores do ano” de veículos como Veja, O Globo e Folha de S.Paulo, ganhou os prêmios Casa de Las Americas, Academia Brasileira de Letras, Oceanos, Machado de Assis (FBN) e APCA. Estudada na Europa, nos Estados Unidos e no Mundo Árabe, sua obra está publicada em dezessete países e quinze idiomas.

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