Bøker av Victor Heringer

The Alencar Costa e Oliveira family talk to each other in inside jokes, often saying the opposite of what they mean, or repeating the same sentence until it acquires new meaning. But the family has another characteristic: they all die of acute melancholy.

The Love of Singular Men is a coming-of-age love story set against the stifling backdrop of the Brazilian military dictatorship. In this short and elegant novel, Heringer combines an incisive exploration of Brazilian social and political issues with a moving account of first love, first grief and revenge, all written in fluid, innovative prose.