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Flesh and bone and water : a novel

Sauma, Luiza, author

Overview

Andrâe is a listless Brazilian teenager and the son of a successful plastic surgeon who lives a life of wealth and privilege, shuttling between the hot sands of Ipanema beach and his familys luxurious penthouse apartment. In 1985, when he is just sixteen, Andrâes mother is killed in a car accident. Clouded with grief, Andrâe, his younger brother Thiago, and his father travel with their domestic help to Belem, a jungle city on the mouth of the Amazon, where the intense heat of the rainforest only serves to heighten their volatile emotions. After they arrive back in Rio, Andrâes father loses himself in his work, while Andrâe spends his evenings in the family apartment with Luana, the beautiful daughter of the familys maid. Three decades later, and now a successful surgeon himself, Andrâe is a middle-aged father, living in London, and recently separated from his British wife. He drinks too much wine and is plagued by recurring dreams. One day he receives an unexpected letter from Luana, which begins to reveal the other side of their story, a story Andrâe has long repressed.

• Publisher: Scribner
• Subject: Brazilians England London Fiction. / Early memories Fiction. / Surgeons Fiction. / Man-woman relationships Fiction. / Mothers Death Fiction. / Brazilians. / Early memories. / Man-woman relationships. / Mothers Death. / Surgeons. / Brazil Fiction. / Brazil. / England London.
• ISBN: 9781501158025, 1501158023

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6119.A845 F57 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE