A review by blueyorkie
O Rapaz Perdido by Maria Correia, Thomas Wolfe
4.0
How to evoke the disappearance, the loss of a child?
Thomas Wolfe grew up in the shadow of his brother's ghost, young Grover, who died of typhoid fever in his twelfth year.
He returns to snatches of memories in four parts to create a complex and polymorphous portrait of this young boy, mysterious for the author, who was only four years old at the drama. That's a memory in a grocery store where Grover had defending by his father, the words of a mother fractured by loss, the memories of a sister haunted by tragedy and the narrator's haggard quest in the neighbourhood. This polyphonic storey deals with loss, the impossible mourning, and the family.
Beautiful and tragic at the same time.
Thomas Wolfe grew up in the shadow of his brother's ghost, young Grover, who died of typhoid fever in his twelfth year.
He returns to snatches of memories in four parts to create a complex and polymorphous portrait of this young boy, mysterious for the author, who was only four years old at the drama. That's a memory in a grocery store where Grover had defending by his father, the words of a mother fractured by loss, the memories of a sister haunted by tragedy and the narrator's haggard quest in the neighbourhood. This polyphonic storey deals with loss, the impossible mourning, and the family.
Beautiful and tragic at the same time.