Author:Bernardo Carvalho
In August 1939, a brilliant, privileged twenty-seven-year-old American ethnologist commits suicide in Brazil, leaving behind seven letters suggesting different motives. To some he said he had contracted a terrible disease; to others he claimed he could not recover from his wife's affair with his brother (though he was neither married, nor had a brother). Intrigued by the mystery, our narrator gathers the fragmentary evidence and sets out to discover the truth, becoming obsessed, before long, with the idea that there was an eighth letter.
Slipping between fact and fiction, reality and illusion, this striking and haunting novel by one of Brazil's most remarkable contemporary writers follwos one man's personal quest for certainty - a mission that slowly drives him mad; a Marlowe haunted by the fate of his own Kurtz.
Deploys his fact/fiction hijinks to produce an ending that is still haunting me, months later
—— John Franzen , GuardianA spellbinding book, Nine Nights is a masterly combination blending fiction, research, history, ethnology and journalism
—— Le FigaroA dark but exhilarating journey into the jungle of a man's mind - deftly written and highly original
—— Evening HeraldGripping...a thriller in the manner of Joseph Conrad
—— TetuNine Nights [is] a beautiful and disturbing meditation on love and death, on familyand identity. A rich and profound study of the nature of doubt
—— La CroixA hybrid novel which seeks out the fragile threads which connect truth to fiction, self to other. A masterpiece
—— Les InrockuptiblesAnother genius Scottish take on the theme of split personalities. Needs no further introduction
—— Maggie O’FarrellFirst-rate! What an artist and what a psychologist
—— Gustave FlaubertReaders who wonder why... Martin Amis and... Kiran Desai seem to flinch from writing about their own times should study Ms Seiffert
—— EconomistRachel Seiffert is the poet and spokeswoman of those who find themselves on the wrong side of history...powerful, almost unbearably intense and wonderfully written
—— The TimesA quietly ambitious book
—— GuardianDespite the halting, low-key narration as Joe and Alice attempt to piece together the terms of their engagement, a simmering tension builds, though Seiffert is admirably less concerned with the revelation of atrocities than in how the soldier, having breached the first commandment, negotiates a return to ordinary life
—— ObserverA beautiful book and it's beautifully written
—— Kit de Waal , Good Housekeeping UKMy favourite book of all time
—— Sareeta Domingo , Good HousekeepingMorrison's stunning trilogy is an evocation of black life over the past four centuries. It defies summary. Completed almost 25 years ago, these novels top anything produced by any American writer including Hemingway, Updike and DeLillo
—— Trevor Phillips , Sunday Times[A] beautiful, haunting novel
—— Stig Abell , Sunday TimesMore than one of Morrison's books could be classed as masterpieces, but this one is famous for a reason: everyone should read it
—— Bernice McFadden, author of SUGAR , GuardianA magnificent achievement...an American masterpiece
—— A.S. Byatt , GuardianA triumph
—— Margaret Atwood , New York Times Book ReviewShe melds horror and beauty in a story that will disturb the mind forever
—— Sunday TimesToni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature
—— New York Review of BooksA work of genuine force. . .Beautifully written
—— Washington PostThere is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you
—— The New YorkerSuperb. . .A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . .Exquisitely told
This is a wonderful novel about slavery, freedom, parental loss and revenants
—— The Week, Thomas Keneally
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