Daniel Galera

Um professor de educação física busca refúgio em Garopaba, um pequeno balneário de Santa Catarina, após a morte do pai. O protagonista (cujo nome não se conhece) se afasta da relação conturbada com os outros membros da família e mergulha em um isolamento geográfico e psicológico. Ao mesmo tempo, ele empreende a busca pela verdade no caso da morte do avô, Gaudério, que teria sido assassinado décadas antes na mesma Garopaba, na época apenas uma vila de pescadores. Sempre acompanhado por Beta, cadela do falecido pai, o professor mergulha na investigação sobre o misterioso Gaudério, esquadrinhando as lacunas do pouco que lhe é revelado, a contragosto, pelos moradores mais antigos da cidade. Portador de uma condição neurológica congênita que o obriga a interagir com as outras pessoas de um modo peculiar, o professor estabelece relações com alguns moradores - uma garçonete e seu filho pequeno, os alunos da natação, um budista histriônico, a secretária de uma agência turística de passeios. Aos poucos, ele vai reunindo as peças que talvez lhe permitirão entender melhor a própria história. 'Barba Ensopada de Sangue' se propõe a resgatar e levar às últimas consequências temas e conflitos das obras anteriores do autor tais como - a construção da identidade e, nesse processo, as dificuldades que se enfrenta para entender e reconhecer os outros; a necessidade inconfessa de uma reparação talvez inviável; a busca pela unidade entre mente e corpo; o consolo afetivo que o contato com a natureza e os animais é capaz de proporcionar; os diversos tipos de violência que podem irromper em meio a uma existência domesticada.

romance

Barba ensopada de sangue

" From Brazil's most acclaimed young novelist, the mesmerizing story of how a troubled young man's restorative journey to the seaside becomes a violent struggle with his family's past - So why did they kill him? - I'm getting there. Patience, tchê. I wanted to give you the context. Because it's a good story, isn't it? A young man's father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his grandfather's death, or at least the truth as he knows it. The mean old gaucho was murdered by some fellow villagers in Garopaba, a sleepy town on the Atlantic now famous for its surfing and fishing. It was almost an execution, vigilante style. Or so the story goes. It is almost as if his father has given the young man a deathbed challenge. He has no strong ties to home, he is ready for a change, and he loves the seaside and is a great ocean swimmer, so he strikes out for Garopaba, without even being quite sure why. He finds an apartment by the water and builds a simple new life, taking his father's old dog as a companion. He swims in the sea every day, makes a few friends, enters into a relationship, begins to make inquiries. But information doesn't come easily. A rare neurological condition means that he doesn't recognize the faces of people he's met, leading frequently to awkwardness and occasionally to hostility. And the people who know about his grandfather seem fearful, even haunted. Life becomes complicated in Garopaba until it becomes downright dangerous. Steeped in a very special atmosphere, both languid and tense, and soaked in the sultry allure of south Brazil, Daniel Galera's masterfully spare and powerful prose unfolds a story of discovery that feels almost archetypal-a display of storytelling sorcery that builds with oceanic force and announces one of Brazil's greatest young writers to the English-speaking world. "--

Blood-Drenched Beard

"Three friends, Aurora, a scientist and researcher, Antero, an avant-garde artist turned publicist, and Emiliano, a journalist, once worked together on a digital fanzine that became worshiped all over Brazil. Now, nearly two decades later, the death of the fourth member of the group reconnects them. The novel explores lives trapped between unfulfilled promises and apocalyptic yearnings, capturing the generation that grew up in the midst of the beginning of the internet"--

A Novel

Twenty After Midnight

Rafael Coutinho

Um escultor recebe um inusitado convite para protagonizar um filme cujo roteiro parece estranhamente inspirado em sua vida privada. Um jovem vendedor de uma loja de ferragens, adepto da dominação sexual com cordas, descobre que a linda garota por quem se apaixona é particularmente frágil e suscetível ao seu fetiche favorito, o que os conduz a um perigoso embate. Um astro decadente do cinema chinês vem ao Brasil para o lançamento de um filme e torna-se suspeito da morte de seu companheiro de cena. Um playboy mimado e arrogante é expulso de casa pelo tio e enviado à Europa para se virar sozinho. Um escritor deprimido e sua ex-esposa, pais de uma menina, encontram-se em parques e lanchonetes de São Paulo, procurando manter o vínculo afetivo. Por fim, uma velha senhora grávida e solitária vaga por sua mansão e tem encontros oníricos com uma baleia cachalote na piscina de sua casa. Somando mais de trezentas páginas, as tramas são amarradas por temas e subtextos recorrentes, tais como o confronto dos personagens com acontecimentos drásticos ou misteriosos que transformam suas vidas.

Cachalote

Mãos de cavalo

Dentes Guardados

Sie waren unsterblich – damals, Ende der Neunziger, wütend und voller Aufbruch, drei Jungs und eine Frau, Protagonisten der neuen Gegenkultur aus späten Punks, krassen Künstlern und digitalen Bohemiens. Allen voran Duke, riesiges Schriftstellertalent, genialisch, unnahbar. Jetzt ist Duke tot, zufälliges Opfer eines Raubüberfalls, es ist das Jahr 2014 und Porto Alegre wie paralysiert von der sengenden Hitze und dem Streik. Am Grab ihres alten Mitstreiters kommen Aurora, Antero und Emiliano zusammen, nach einer gefühlten Ewigkeit wie Fremde. Unweigerlicher Blick zurück: Wie war das früher, und was ist aus ihnen geworden, aus den Idealen, Lebensplänen, Hoffnungen? Und: Wer war dieser Duke wirklich? War er ihr Freund? Oder hat er sie nicht doch bloß für seine Zwecke benutzt? Die immer skurrilere Suche nach einer Antwort führt die drei zu einer Hinterlassenschaft, die so berührend wie erschütternd ist. Was gibt dem Leben Halt, wenn das Wünschen nicht mehr hilft? Daniel Galera hat einen virtuos agilen, unerschrockenen Generationen- und Gegenwartsroman geschrieben. Über Auf- und Abbrüche, über Ankünfte und Verlorenheiten und über das ungelöste – vielleicht unlösbare? – Geheimnis menschlicher Nähe.

Roman

So enden wir

Barba intrisa di sangue

En medio de una inesperada ola de calor y en un Porto Alegre paralizado por una huelga de transportes, tres amigos vuelven a encontrarse después de casi dos décadas. A finales de los noventa habían creado juntos un fanzine digital que se hizo famoso en todo Brasil. En su momento compartieron el sentimiento inmortal de la juventud y muchas promesas incumplidas. Hoy solo les une la tristeza por la muerte de Duque, a quien han disparado de madrugada mientras corría por la ciudad, en otro estúpido caso de violencia callejera. Era el cuarto miembro del grupo, el más brillante y talentoso pero también el más solitario e inaccesible, convertido en los últimos años en una de las nuevas voces de la literatura brasileña. Los recuerdos del pasado regresarán para esbozar el retrato incierto del amigo perdido y de un grupo de jóvenes que tuvieron que reinventarse en la nueva era de internet y de las redes sociales.

Las Doce Y Veinte de la Noche / Twelve-Twenty at Night

'Like a cross of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and American Psycho' Financial Times From one of Brazil's foremost literary voices comes a gripping, visceral new novel about youth, power and the nature of manhood A man rises at 5 a.m. and leaves his home. He does not wake his wife or child to bid them goodbye. He starts his car - an SUV filled with survival gear - but does not drive to his friend's house as planned. Instead he glides through the sleeping streets of Porto Alegre, haunted by ghosts of himself: the fearless boy riding a battered stunt bike, the silent adolescent fascinated by bodies and violence, the obsessive young surgeon, the distant husband. As the dawn comes on and people slowly fill the streets, the man drives unthinkingly, inexorably, toward the old neighbourhood of his youth. What is pulling him back there? Perhaps the need to make something happen, perhaps just nostalgia. Or perhaps the search for absolution - from a crime he has carried in his heart for fifteen years.

The Shape of Bones

From Brazil’s most acclaimed young novelist, the mesmerizing story of how a troubled young man’s restorative journey to the seaside becomes a violent struggle with his family’s past —So why did they kill him? —I’m getting there. Patience, tchê. I wanted to give you the context. Because it’s a good story, isn’t it? A young man’s father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his grandfather’s death, or at least the truth as he knows it. The mean old gaucho was murdered by some fellow villagers in Garopaba, a sleepy town on the Atlantic now famous for its surfing and fishing. It was almost an execution, vigilante style. Or so the story goes. It is almost as if his father has given the young man a deathbed challenge. He has no strong ties to home, he is ready for a change, and he loves the seaside and is a great ocean swimmer, so he strikes out for Garopaba, without even being quite sure why. He finds an apartment by the water and builds a simple new life, taking his father’s old dog as a companion. He swims in the sea every day, makes a few friends, enters into a relationship, begins to make inquiries. But information doesn’t come easily. A rare neurological condition means that he doesn’t recognize the faces of people he’s met, leading frequently to awkwardness and occasionally to hostility. And the people who know about his grandfather seem fearful, even haunted. Life becomes complicated in Garopaba until it becomes downright dangerous. Steeped in a very special atmosphere, both languid and tense, and soaked in the sultry allure of south Brazil, Daniel Galera’s masterfully spare and powerful prose unfolds a story of discovery that feels almost archetypal—a display of storytelling sorcery that builds with oceanic force and announces one of Brazil’s greatest young writers to the English-speaking world. Look for Daniel's new book, The Shape of Bones.

A dark and masterful portrait of a generation in crisis, from one of the most exciting young voices in international literature The world had been theirs in the late 90s: they were the young provocateurs behind a countercultural scene, digital bohemians creating a new future. But fifteen years later, Duke, the leader and undisputed genius of their group, has been murdered, and the three remaining members of their circle reunite to piece together what became of their lives and how they fell so short of their expectations. Now in their thirties, Aurora, Antero, and Emiliano have succumbed to the pressures of adulthood, the exigencies of carving out a life in a country that is fraying at the seams. Reunited after years of long-held grudges and painful crushes, the three try to resurrect the spirit of the all-night parties and early morning trysts, the protests and pornography of their youths. Lurking over them, as they puzzle out their fates, is the question of whether or not there is a future for them to believe in, or if the end has already arrived. Twenty After Midnight is a portrait of the first generation of the digital age, a group that was promised everything but handed a fractured world. Daniel Galera has written a pre-apocalyptic tale of millennial longings.

I ett Porto Alegre som är lamslaget av en outhärdlig värmebölja och en oändlig bussförarstrejk, och där våldet på gatorna ökar, återser tre vänner varandra efter femton år. Det är Aurora, biologidoktorand på universitetet i São Paulo som vill tillbaka till naturen, Emiliano, frilansande journalist som under många år förnekade sin homosexualitet men som nu kommit ut, samt Antero, förr avantgardistisk konstnär, numera framgångsrik reklamman som lever småborgerligt familjeliv med sin hustru. I slutet av 1990-talet ingick de i redaktionen för det kultförklarade webbfanzinet Orangotango, som startats av deras vän Andrei Dukelsky, Duque kallad. Duque, som levt tillbakadraget sedan dess, har rånmördats och de tre vännerna ska nu gå på hans begravning. I olika kapitel berättar de sin historia i jag-form, sina barndomsminnen men också det som sker under och efter begravningen. Emiliano har fått i uppdrag att skriva en biografi över den nyligen bortgångne Andrei och hans efterforskningar blir också ett slags mordundersökning - för det visar sig att Duque, delvis levde ett dubbelliv.

Tjugo över midnatt

Varför har du en pistol på bordet?↵Imorgon tänker jag ta livet av mig.↵Vilken massa skitsnack.↵Ja, glöm det. Jag kan inte begära att du ska förstå.↵Vi är för olika.↵↵Hans far ber honom komma och ta hand om hunden eftersom han tänker ta livet av sig. När han vill veta varför berättar fadern i stället en historia om farfadern.↵↵Hans farfar mördades av invånarna i badorten Garopaba under söndagsdansen i samlingssalen. Ljuset slocknade och när lamporna tändes igen låg gamlingen död på golvet i en blodpöl. Åtminstone sägs det så.↵↵Sedan hans egen far begått självmord känner han sig tvingad att söka sanningen bakom mordet. I Garopaba faller han snabbt in i det loja liv som präglar en badort under lågsäsong; simmar i havet varje dag, upplever ett par hastigt uppkomna förälskelser och inleder sina efterforskningar.↵↵Med blod i skägget utforskar våra mest primitiva drifter samtidigt som den skildrar en ung mans sökande efter identitet och frigörelse från det förflutna.

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