Lo que es mío / What Is Mine (Spanish Edition)

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Product Details

Author:
José Henrique Bortoluci
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
144
Publisher:
PRH Grupo Editorial (November 12, 2024)
Language:
Spanish
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9788439743231
ISBN-10:
8439743238
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8.2oz
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5.4" x 9.04" x 0.52"
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Spain
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Overview

Una proeza de la literatura brasileña actual, publicada en diez países con un éxito insólito y rotundo.

«Una luminosa historia social de Brasil, contada desde la perspectiva amorosa de un hijo académico que se enfrenta a la enfermedad de su padre trabajador».
João Moreira Salles

«Las palabras son carreteras. Con ellas conectamos los puntos entre el presente y un pasado al que ya no podemos acceder [...]. Las palabras eran el regalo que mi padre traía en el camión cuando yo era niño».
 
En este breve pero inmenso libro es el hijo, el sociólogo y profesor José Henrique Bortoluci, quien nos regala ahora las palabras de su padre, camionero de profesión durante cincuenta años, para relatarnos una vida llena de maravillosas anécdotas en la carretera. La distancia entre el hijo académico, el primero de la familia que pudo estudiar, y el padre jubilado, ahora consumido por el cáncer, parece insalvable, pero Bortoluci consigue acercarse a su mundo y resolver el enigma de un padre ausente que recorrió todo Brasil y participó en enormes proyectos de infraestructuras, como la Carretera Transamazónica: un plan que conllevó la brutal deforestación del Amazonas y que, como tantos otros planes encabezados por la junta militar, carcomió un país que en su día fue salvaje y que a día de hoy arrastra una profunda herida.
 
Siguiendo los pasos de autores como Annie Ernaux y Svetlana Aleksiévich#, en este conmovedor y brillante testimonio de amor filial Bortoluci revisa la historia reciente de Brasil para mostrarnos las cicatrices inscritas en la piel tanto de las personas como de los países.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A genre-bending and thought-provoking examination of capitalism and cancer – and recent Brazilian history – based on the author's interviews with his truck driver father.

In What Is Mine, sociologist José Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s, Didi’s work as a truck driver took him away from home for long stretches at a time as he crisscrossed the country and participated in huge infrastructure projects including the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a scheme spearheaded by the military dictatorship of the time, undertaken through brutal deforestation. 

An observer of history, Didi also recounts the toll his work has taken on his health, from a heart attack in middle age to the cancer that defines his retirement. Bortoluci weaves the history of a nation with that of a man, uncovering parallels between cancer and capitalism – both sustained by expansion, both embodiments of ‘the gospel of growth at any cost’ – and tracing the distance that class has placed between him and his father. Influenced by authors such as Annie Ernaux and Svetlana Alexievich, is a moving, thought-provoking and brilliantly constructed examination of the scars we carry, as people and as countries.

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