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Bracher brilliantly picks away at the web of secrets and lies plaguing a family and country' - New York Times

In Beatriz Bracher's Antonio-her third novel and her breakout book in Brazil-Benjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to find out how it happened. Those most immediately involved are all dead, but their three closest confidantes are still alive-his grandmother, Isabel, Haroldo, his grandfather's friend, and Raul, his father's friend-and each will tell him different version...

A professor prepares to retire-Gustavo is set to move from Sao Paulo to the countryside, but it isn't the urban violence he's fleeing: what he fears most is the violence of his memory. But as he sorts out his papers, the ghosts arrive in full force. He was arrested in 1970 with his brother-in-law Armando: both were vicariously tortured. He was eventually released, Armando was killed. No one is certain that he didn't turn traitor: I didn't talk...