My German brother
Buarque, Chico, 1944-2019
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Renowned Brazilian composer, musician, poet, and novelist Chico Buarque has spoken widely about the unknown fate of his 'German brother': a child born of an affair between his father and the German woman he met while working as a journalist in Nazi Berlin. Inspired by a re-reading of Austerlitz, WG Sebald's own investigation of the intersection between history and personal memory, Buarque soon started work on the novel that would become 'My German Brother'. The result is an attempt to reconstruct through fiction Buarque's own obsessive search for his lost sibling. The novel tells the story of Ciccio, who finds, among the many books belonging to his father which line the walls of his house, a troubling letter dated 'December 21, 1931, Berlin'.
Main title:
My German brother / Chico Buarque ; translated by Alison Entrekin.
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2019.
Collation:
192 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Portuguese.This translation originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9781509806461 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
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EnglishPortuguese
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BRN:
2737595
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