Synopsis
Ciccio already has many problems: romantic failure, an older brother who seems intent on breaking the heart of every beautiful woman in São Paulo, a distant and larger-than-life father. When Ciccio finds, among the many of his father’s books that line the walls of their house, a troubling letter dated ‘December 21, 1931. Berlin’, his existential crisis only intensifies.
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Details
05 April 2018160 pages
9781509806478Imprint: Picador
Reviews
[Chico Buarque] has developed into an intriguing and inventive novelist . . . The language of My German Brother is musical and serpentine, as he unravels a tale that is part historical mystery, part intellectual and sexual coming-of-age.Vanity Fair
My German Brother, is a fascinating, shape-shifting piece of autofiction . . . There’s more than a whiff of Sebald to this potent, meandering mixture of text and image, fact and fiction.Daily Telegraph
[A] poignant exploration of the past that lies tucked away between the pages of musty books, revealing that our parents had lives before we were born.Kirkus
