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Diorama : a novel / Carol Bensimon ; translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry and Julia Sanches.
Van Pelt - New Book Display PQ9698.412.E57 D5613 2026
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- Author/Creator:
- Bensimon, Carol, 1982- Author.
- Standardized Title:
- Diorama. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/7328feb1-5e47-9f8b-c4ff-68c5c791380a
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Assassination--Brazil--Fiction.
- Assassination.
- Psychic trauma--Fiction.
- Psychic trauma.
- Children of politicians--Brazil--Fiction.
- Children of politicians.
- Women immigrants--California--Fiction.
- Women immigrants.
- Brazil--Politics and government--1985-2002--Fiction.
- Brazil.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Bildungsromans.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the Portuguese.
- Summary:
- "Based on real events, the daughter of an assassin flees Brazil to outrun the aftermath of the murder and ensuing scandal that defined her young life"-- Provided by publisher.
- In 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect: a close friend and colleague in congress, Representative Raul Matzenbacher. Many years later, Cec̕lia Matzenbacher, his daughter, migrates from Southern Brazil to California, where she finds work as a taxidermist. Her temperament is ideally suited to this type of restoration and the careful reconstruction of a world frozen in time. But as Cec̕lia confronts her own history and the memories of the investigation surrounding her father, her knack for composition frays. When news arrives that Raul has suffered a stroke and Cec̕lia's chances to see him again may be limited, her past can no longer stay put, posed like a specimen behind glass. Her story emerges, the past stalking her present, threatening to derail the life she's made for herself in the United States. -- amazon.com
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Portuguese in 2022 by Companhia das Letras, Brazil, as Diorama."
- ISBN:
- 9780374616038
- 0374616035
- OCLC:
- 1513893232
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