TURBULENCE. - Hardcover
This story is told by a drop-out from the privileged upper crust, who enters the "other" Brazil of wretched poverty and petty crime. Catapulted into a series of violent adventures, the narrator draws the reader into a hallucinatory underworld - a nightmare vision of paranoia and lawlessness.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Portugese
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Original Language: Portugese
Heavy on angst and ennui, this bleak, semisurreal first novel elliptically evokes the moral malaise of a Brazil rife with class tensions and ready to explode. The nameless narrator, a dropout who lives on handouts from his chic, wealthy sister, steals her jewels, acquires a suitcase full of marijuana and gets mixed up with thieves and squatters on his family's ramshackle farm, now overrun by a shantytown gang. A bigger robbery, rape and murder ensue as events spin out of his control. Buarque, a Brazilian singer-songwriter, sprinkles his dark parable with jarring images of societal breakdown--a dead man sitting on a bus amid indifferent passengers, a well-dressed stranger carrying an artificial leg--but neither characters nor plot are absorbing enough to sustain the reader's interest. The protagonist's sister, disdainful ex-wife and distant mother are generic figures, nondescript furniture in a somnambulistic mindscape; the narrative constantly gets sidetracked in imagined future scenarios. Bush's smooth translation faithfully conveys the novel's volatile, hothouse atmosphere.
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- PublisherBLOOMSBURY.
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0747511721
- ISBN 13 9780747511724
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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