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Luis Fernando Verissimo
Birth date: September 26, 1936
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Stacia's books
Stacia's books rated it 11 years ago
A complete & utter delight of a book. A Borges style mystery with some Poe, Lovecraft, infinite monkeys, & surrealism thrown in. Verissimo (meaning 'true' in Portuguese) leads you through a labyrinth of mirrors, philosophy, surrealist reasoning, ancient history, & good old-fashioned noir while spinn...
bbbart
bbbart rated it 11 years ago
This is a nice tale of gluttony and death, a parable of some sort. However, I felt that near the end, the platitudes of a detective story were becoming too apparent for what is essentially a non-detective story.Upfront, I was expecting more from this book and when I finished it I felt a bit disappoi...
Amadan na Briona
Amadan na Briona rated it 13 years ago
Okay you guys who've been pushing all those "bizarro" novels: take your favorite bizarro author, and Jorge Luis Borges will totally drink his milkshake. Even as a fictional character.Borges wrote what's called "magical realism" nowadays, but while his fans may think "fantasy" is too undignified a la...
gutohernandes
gutohernandes rated it 15 years ago
I had read the first chapter in the brazilian version of GRANTA, and I was really surprised!The book starts very well, you want to know more about the drunk editor who approves books depending on how hung over he is, about the mysterious girl who writes to the editor telling her story, about the tow...
cczarneckikernus
cczarneckikernus rated it 15 years ago
Quick, involved murder mystery.
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