Michel Laub

Three generations of Jewish men try to come to grips with their own lives and memories after a cruel schoolboy prank leaves the only Christian student at an elite Hebrew school in Brazil horribly injured. Original.

Diary of the Fall

Raul Loureiro

Do premiado autor Michel Laub, um romance sobre ódio, perdão e os modos como nossa intimidade é definida pela política e pela barbárie do nosso tempo. Uma cineasta alemã marcada por um trauma prepara um documentário sobre a violência brasileira. Os principais entrevistados são dois irmãos: Raquel, artista de cento e trinta quilos cujo trabalho se baseia em episódios que a levaram a detestar o próprio corpo, e Alexandre, empresário que atua no ramo fitness na periferia de São Paulo. Ambos foram escolhidos por causa da repercussão mundial de uma agressão que Raquel sofreu, no início de 2018, durante um debate sobre arte e política num hotel da capital paulista. Diante das câmeras, os segredos dessa história íntima que envolve bullying de adolescência, uma disputa por herança e diferentes visões sobre temas como sexo, religião e responsabilidade individual são pontuados por flashes da história recente do país — do Plano Collor, que iniciou a ruína da família dos protagonistas, às vésperas de uma eleição que mobilizou o ódio de uma sociedade profundamente dividida. A ideia de conciliação, afinal, é inimiga ou aliada da barbárie em que nos metemos?

Solução De Dois Estados

Diário da queda

Dziennik upadku

A maçã envenenada

Bir Düsüsün Güncesi

From one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian Novelists, a literary masterpiece that will break your heart At the narrator’s elite Jewish school in a posh suburb of Porte Alegre, a cruel prank leaves the only Catholic student there terribly injured. Years later, he relives the episode as he examines the mistakes of his past and struggles for forgiveness. His father, who has Alzheimer’s, obsessively records every memory that comes to mind, and his grandfather, who survived Auschwitz, fills notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget. This powerful novel centered on guilt and the complicated legacy of history asks provocative questions about what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century.

A Novel

En trettonårig pojke skadas på ett födelsedagskalas. Som vuxen skriver en av de andra pojkarna om episoden, där han erkänner för sig själv att skadan inte var en olyckshändelse. Minnen väcks till liv, både av händelsen i det förflutna, men också av den svåra relation pojken haft till sin pappa. Pojkens farfar i sin tur överlevde Auschwitz, en tid som han aldrig talade om. Istället skrev han en hemlig dagbok under sitt fortsatta liv i Brasilien. Nu har han begått självmord och hans son har fått alzheimer. Sonsonen, en tredje generationens överlevare, är ensam med minnena.Att falla är en ovanlig resa genom en mans minnen vid en tid då han behöver göra ett vägval i livet. Här väcks frågor som både är enkla och komplexa: varför är världen som den är? Hur blir människor sådana som dom är? Kan man ärva skuld, eller är man alltid ensam ansvarig för hur man utformar sitt liv? Översättningen är gjord av Fredrik Ekelund. Översättare: Fredrik Ekelund

Att falla

*Selected as one of the Best Books 2017 in the Financial Times* 'One of Brazil’s finest authors offers a meditation on betrayal, guilt, survival and the many ways in which personal and collective histories collide' - Ángel Gurría-Quintana Is it better to burn out than to fade away? An entrancing novel of loss and regret, from the prizewinning Brazilian novelist Michel Laub. In this sinuous meditation on passion, youth and guilt, a man looks back over twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria, and its tragic climax.. They both had tickets to Nirvana in 1993, the only gig the band ever played in Brazil. But he was on military service and failed to join her. She was there with his best friend instead. Consumed by insecurities and tricks of memory, he continues to feel, two decades later, that one fateful night has defined his entire adult life. Entwining this most personal story with seminal events of the 1990s, A Poison Apple circles around and back to some of the biggest questions: what is a life worth? What does it mean to really commit to living? And can we ever break free of the past? Successor to his prizewinning Diary of the Fall, this is a beautiful and haunting novel that shows Michel Laub at his mesmeric best.

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