{"product_id":"sua-face-ilegal","title":"Your illegal face","description":"The only writer to win two Booker Prizes—the most important literary award in the English language—Peter Carey doesn't underestimate his readers. His novels aren't easy, but they're always superb. The narrative's hurdles are a hallmark of his style. In a less talented writer, this could be a problem. In Carey, it's simply proof of his inexhaustible ability to uniquely link ideas and words. In *His Illegal Face*, he uses this device to create a powerful and utterly disconcerting novel. And perhaps precisely for that reason, it's a literary triumph. Another one for his collection of fictional successes. Here, real love and virtual artifice become the driving force of the plot. As does the search for a truth that's not as obvious as it seems at first glance. A novel about how our relationships permeate us, mark us, and define us. At seven years old, Che Selkirk has no memory of his parents. Only the certainty that they'll come back for him. And the belief, reinforced by rumors and by their very name, that they were revolutionaries forced to disappear after committing some anti-government violence. Their short existence is controlled by their grandmother, Phoebe Selkirk, who raises them under constant cultural surveillance in the privileged world of the Upper East Side. This orderly existence is suddenly interrupted by a mix of escape, kidnapping, and reunion: a woman claiming to be his mother comes to retrieve him. Side by side, they deceive Che's grandmother and end up in Australia, where the romance truly begins. Mysteriously, the mother asks the boy to call her only Dial. But is she really who she claims to be? Or is Che's certainty born of longing, of hope? Che, like the reader, struggles to find answers in a world in constant flux. Carey weaves a subtle tapestry of vulnerability, privilege, pain, and loss. Nothing seems what it is, and yet something solid emerges. Something true, charged with meaning and humor. A modern fable about a child taken from the enchanted forest finding, in wisdom beyond his years, the strength to survive.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159266705660,"sku":"9788501091482","price":74.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/074ed614ac10d85b5dd824ddd5db9d22_7453f850-2cb5-4a1a-b3cd-19cd5a555b70.jpg?v=1778325462","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/sua-face-ilegal","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}