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1st published in Portuguese as O avesso da pele in 2020Life under Brazil's brutal “cordial racism” comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers & sons. How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for himself in the objects his father left behind: the layers that make up his life, & that of his parents, & the circumstances, geographies, & wounds that shaped them all. It's an archaeology of affections, but also of life in southern Brazil, where being black on the streets of Porto Alegre manifests violences large & small. Where being a young woman, raised by a single mother, may find you seeking security in the untrustworthy arms of men.In Dark Side of Skin, Jeferson Tenório takes on fathers & sons, Shakespeare & Cervantes, & the inescapable bonds & burdens of family & history in one delicately rendered, painfully precise account of loved ones lost & found.°°°Jeferson Tenório was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1977. Based in Porto Alegre, he is a doctoral student in Literary Theory at PUCRS & a lecturer in literature. His literary debut was the novel _l O beijo na parede_ (Kiss on the Wall, 2013), chosen as book of the year by the Rio Grande do Sul W

Who reads The Dark Side of Skin (O avesso da pele)?

Author

Jeferson Tenório, Bruna Dantas Lobato (translation)

Publisher

Charco Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781913867744

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Romance, Fiction, World Fiction