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Three generations of Jewish men try to come to grips with their own lives and memories after a cruel schoolboy prank leaves the only Christian student at an elite Hebrew school in Brazil horribly injured. Original.
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From one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian Novelists, a literary masterpiece that will break your heartAt the narrator’s elite Jewish school in a posh suburb of Porte Alegre, a cruel prank leaves the only Catholic student there terribly injured. Years later, he relives the episode as he examines the mistakes of his past and struggles for forgiveness. His father, who has Alzheimer’s, obsessively records every memory that comes to mind, and his grandfather, who survived Auschwitz, fills notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget.This powerful novel centered on guilt and the complicated legacy of history asks provocative questions about what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century.
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