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Author:
Viegas, Francisco José, author.
Title:
Melancholia / Francisco José Viegas.
Edition:
1.a edição.
Publisher:
Porto Editora,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
331 pages ; 21 cm
Subject:
Ramos, Jamie--(Inspector) (fictious character from Francisco José Viegas)--fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Portugal--Fiction.
Authors--Death--Fiction.
Jewish families--Portugal--Fiction.
Police--Portugal--Fiction.
Authors--Death.
Jewish families.
Murder--Investigation.
Police.
Portugal.
Cozy mysteries.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.
Cozy mysteries.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Summary:
"Ao longo de um ano, entre um encontro literário na Póvoa de Varzim e o início da pandemia, ninguém soube do paradeiro de Cristina Pinho Ferraz, escritora extravagante, premiada e temida. Até que, nos jardins românticos do Palácio de Cristal, no Porto, a coberto da copa das árvores, apareceu um corpo enterrado sob a terra, dividido em várias partes. Porém, a nova investigação do inspetor Jaime Ramos (que entretanto fora substituído na divisão de homicídios) não começa com a descoberta desse cadáver; pelo contrário, obriga-o a recuar no passado, a ouvir testemunhos sobre vaidade, vingança, literatura e ambição, e também histórias de família ou de amor e melancolia. Enquanto o confinamento se espalha sobre vivos e desaparecidos, Jaime Ramos reconstitui a biografia daquela mulher e a história de uma família e de uma genealogia do poder nas margens da tradição judaica portuense, confrontando-se mais uma vez com as suas obsessões: a ameaça da idade e da memória, a fragilidade dos velhos e a reconstituição do passado. Então, o que poderia ser apenas uma história de inveja e traição entre intelectuais desavindos e cómicos, transforma-se num inquérito sobre a melancolia portuguesa." -- back cover
"Over the course of a year, between a literary meeting in Póvoa de Varzim and the start of the pandemic, no one knew the whereabouts of Cristina Pinho Ferraz, an extravagant, award-winning and feared writer. Until, in the romantic gardens of the Palácio de Cristal, in Porto, under cover of the canopy of trees, a body appeared buried under the earth, divided into several parts. However, the new investigation by inspector Jaime Ramos (who had meanwhile been replaced in the homicide division) does not begin with the discovery of this body; on the contrary, it forces you to step back into the past, to listen to testimonies about vanity, revenge, literature and ambition, as well as family stories of love and melancholy. While confinement spreads over the living and the missing, Jaime Ramos reconstructs that woman's biography and the history of a family and a genealogy of power on the margins of Porto's Jewish tradition, confronting himself once again with his obsessions: the threat of age and memory, the fragility of the elderly and the reconstitution of the past. So, what could just be a story of envy and betrayal between alienated and comical intellectuals, becomes an inquiry into Portuguese melancholy." -- Cataloger's translation of the synopsis on the cover
ISBN:
972003470X
9789720034700
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1345674945
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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