Description
In a single night in an unnamed European city, six solitary lives collide in a claustrophobic chain of encounters—each shaped by guilt, desperation, ethical compromise, and the fragile thinness of sanity. A militiaman haunted by what he has done, a baker pushed toward violence, a doctor wrestling with moral responsibility, a boy bracing for loss, a prostitute trapped in exploitation, and a woman tormented by schizophrenia all move through the same dark hours, revealing how quickly ordinary routines can curdle into catastrophe. With concise, razor-edged prose and a darkly comic sensibility, the novel turns suffering and isolation into a searching philosophical inquiry into what remains when meaning fails. Part psychological portrait, part existential reckoning, this acclaimed work by Gonçalo M. Tavares is a grimly humorous meditation on the limits of the human condition at the start of the twenty-first century.
Available Editions
paperback
Quid Pro Quo Edicions
Published Apr 15, 2018
247 pages
ISBN: 9788417410056
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Details
First Published
2004
Language
eng
Translation
From: por
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