Crocodilo
Crocodile
by Javier Arancibia Contreras
Companhia das Letras, 2019
184 pages
14×21 cm
An emotional story about family, fatherhood and the changes that growing old brings to everyone’s lives. Losing his only son puts Ruy in the akward positions of facing what he feels about life and about what happened.
While telling the story of the 7 days that follow the death of Pedro, who killed himself by jumping out the window, Contreras creates a unique narration that faces themes like the father-son relationship, the chaos of the contemporary world and the expectations that we all have about life and how they are usually frustrated.
With a flowing narration, the feelings of Pedro’s father, Ruy, are brought to the surface as a mixture of anger and desolation. After losing his only son, Ruy reveals his feelings towards fatherhood and towards the whole world around him.
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Winner of the APCA Prize.
Finalist of the Prêmio São Paulo 2020.
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Javier Arancibia Contreras is a writer, journalist and screenwriter. He was born in Salvador, Bahia, after his family emigrated from Chile during the dictatorship. He is the author of three novels: Imóbile (7Letras, 2008), shortlisted for the Prêmio São Paulo, O dia em que eu deveria ter morrido (Terceiro Nome, 2010), for which he was awarded a literary grant from the São Paulo state government, and Soy loco por ti America (Companhia das Letras, 2016). While working as a crime reporter, he wrote a book on playwright Plínio Marcos, A crônica dos que não têm voz, part reportage and part biographical study. In 2012 he was selected by Granta Magazine as one of the best young Brazilian writers and his short story Rat Fever was published on Granta Magazine.
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