K
A remarkable novel written by the Brazilian journalist Bernardo Kucinski. K is the story of a father who searches desperately for his daughter, ‘disappeared’ during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The father is himself a refugee from Poland in the 1930s. He is racked by feelings of guilt—that because he was immersed in his Yiddish writing and scholarship, he did not really know his daughter or the danger that threatened her. The novel is based on a true story – the disappearance of Kucinski’s younger sister in 1973. As the author says, ‘Everything in this book is invented but almost everything happened’.
The first Brazilian edition sold out in a few weeks, and the novel has been shortlisted for literary awards in Brazil and Portugal. Most recently it has been short-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015.
Series: Latin America Bureau Books
Published: 2013
Pages: 192
eBook: 9781909013520
Paperback: 9781899365777
Hardback: 9781909014077
The first Brazilian edition sold out in a few weeks, and the novel has been shortlisted for literary awards in Brazil and Portugal. Most recently it has been short-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015.
| Foreword to the English edition Jan Rocha | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgements | |||
| Letters to someone who doesn’t exist | |||
| The vortex | |||
| The trap | |||
| The informers | |||
| Her first pair of glasses | |||
| The clandestine marriage | |||
| Letter to a friend | |||
| Books and revolution | |||
| Jacobo | |||
| The dog | |||
| The day the Earth stood still | |||
| Psychological warfare | |||
| The matzeiva | |||
| Left in the lurch | |||
| Immunity, a paradox | |||
| Two reports | |||
| A nightmare | |||
| Passion | |||
| Memories, an inventory | |||
| Therapy | |||
| Giving up literature | |||
| The army almanac | |||
| The extortionists | |||
| The Council meeting | |||
| Streets and names | |||
| Survivors, an afterthought | |||
| The meeting at the barracks | |||
| Message to comrade Klemente | |||
| Postscript | |||
| To the reader |
'A riveting novel and an important historical document... Always gripping'
Richard Gott
'This important and powerful novel ... lyrically translated from the Portuguese. Highly recommended'
Lindsey Hilsum
' ... a substantial literary work '
Hamilton Pereira (Pedro Tierra)
'Few tales have left such an impression on me, both for the tragic force of the narrative and for the feeling of revolt that it arouses'
J. Guinsburg
'I couldn 't stop reading from the first page to the last'
Gilberto Maringoni
'A masterpiece ... unique'
Alipio Freire
'A remarkable book! One of the best accounts, perhaps the very best, written on the theme of the disappeared'
Vladimir Sachetta
Bernardo Kucinski
Bernardo Kucinski is a Brazilian journalist and political scientist, professor at the University of São Paulo.
Sue Branford Sue Branford reports from Latin America for the BBC and The Guardian.
Genres littéraires et gender dans les Amériques
Bibliographie
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