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I Didn't Talk (Paperback)
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I Didn't Talk (Paperback)
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List price R404
Loot Price R331
Discovery Miles 3 310
You Save R73 (18%)
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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, he tells himself, yet guilt is his lifelong harvest. I Didn't
Talk pits everyone against the protagonist-especially his own
brother. The torture never ends, despite his bones having healed
and his teeth having been replaced. And to make matters worse,
certain details from his shattered memory don't quite add up...
Beatriz Bracher depicts a life where the temperature is lower,
there is no music, and much is out of view. I Didn't Talk's
pariah's-eye-view of the forgotten "small" victims powerfully bears
witness to their "internal exile." I didn't talk, Gustavo tells
himself; and as Bracher honors his endless pain, what burns this
tour de force so indelibly in the reader's mind is her intensely
controlled voice.
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