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"Based on real events, the daughter of an assassin flees Brazil to outrun the aftermath of the murder and ensuing scandal that defined her young life"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Portuguese |
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New York :
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2026.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | "Based on real events, the daughter of an assassin flees Brazil to outrun the aftermath of the murder and ensuing scandal that defined her young life"-- Provided by publisher. In 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect: a close friend and colleague in congress, Representative Raul Matzenbacher. Many years later, Cecília Matzenbacher, his daughter, migrates from Southern Brazil to California, where she finds work as a taxidermist. Her temperament is ideally suited to this type of restoration and the careful reconstruction of a world frozen in time. But as Cecília confronts her own history and the memories of the investigation surrounding her father, her knack for composition frays. When news arrives that Raul has suffered a stroke and Cecília's chances to see him again may be limited, her past can no longer stay put, posed like a specimen behind glass. Her story emerges, the past stalking her present, threatening to derail the life she's made for herself in the United States. -- |
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| Physical Description: | 256 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374616038 0374616035 |
| Author Notes: | Carol Bensimon was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1982. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel O Clube dos Jardineiros de Fumaça , which won the Jabuti Award, the most prestigious literary award in Brazil, and was short-listed for the São Paulo Prize for Literature. She is the author of the novels We All Loved Cowboys and Sinuca embaixo d'água and of the acclaimed story collection Pó de parede . In 2012 she was selected by Granta as one of the Best Young Brazilian Novelists. Bensimon has a master's degree in creative writing from PUCRS and lives with her wife in Mendocino, California. |
