Description
In 1939, an American anthropologist disappears into the Amazon and is found dead under circumstances that refuse to settle into a single explanation. Spanning alternating accounts, the novel follows the ripple effects of his suicide as investigators, storytellers, and scholars circle the same unsettling question: what is real, and what is constructed from the act of telling it? Blending documentary impulse with literary invention, the book probes the ethics of ethnography, the fragility of knowledge, and the ways obsession can turn research into myth. With Bernardo Carvalho’s signature command of ambiguity and layered narrative, this is a haunting meditation on truth’s boundaries—where the search for facts becomes inseparable from the fiction that frames them.
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paperback
Vintage Books
Published Jan 22, 2008
224 pages
ISBN: 9780099470335
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First Published
2007
Language
eng
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