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    Late Summer
    Late Summer
    Late Summer
    Audiobook7 hours

    Late Summer

    Written by Luiz Ruffato

    Narrated by Javier Vaszquez

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From one of Brazil’s most important living writers, a powerful reflection on the effects of isolation and feelings of inadequacy in our time.
     
    Sick and abandoned by his wife and son, Oséias decides to go back to his hometown after twenty years away. During this time apart, he has heard about his family only through sporadic phone calls from his younger sister, Isabela. The shadow of the suicide of their sister Lígia, when she was fifteen, lingers over Oséias as he tries to reestablish contact with his siblings. Each of them is absorbed in their own world: Rosana and her obsession with fitness; Isabela and her struggle to survive; João Lúcio and his isolation. All of them are branded by loneliness, but most of all Oséias, who, misunderstood by his family members and old acquaintances, decides to put an end to his journey.
     
    Late Summer can be read as both the realistic story of a displaced man tortured by his unsuccessful attempt to redeem his past, and as a portrait of contemporary society, in which social classes have ruptured any form of dialogue between them, and people have become rogue planets whose paths cross occasionally, risking mutual destruction.

    Editor's Note

    Cautionary tale…

    Oséias is ill, isolated from his family, and haunted by grief. He returns to his hometown in Brazil hoping to reconnect with his siblings, but they’re consumed by their own struggles. This tragic story of a lonely man in search of redemption and closure is also a cautionary tale about our increasingly disconnected way of life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    TranslatorJulia Sanches
    Release dateNov 30, 2021
    ISBN9781094432649
    Late Summer
    Author

    Luiz Ruffato

    Born in 1961, in Cataguases, Brazil, Luiz Ruffato grew up in a poor migrant family. He worked, among other jobs, as a textile worker and a turner-mechanical, and he studied journalism. In 2001, his debut novel, There Were Many Horses, was praised for its vivid depiction of the urbanization of the author’s hometown, São Paulo. The book revolutionized Brazilian literature, winning critical acclaim and a number of prizes, including the Brazilian National Library’s Machado de Assis Award and the APCA Award for best novel. A jury of literary critics from the newspaper O Globo proclaimed the book, which has now been translated into German, Spanish, French, and Italian and published in Portugal, to be one of the ten best Brazilian books of recent decades.

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      I feel this is an interesting storyline with believable characters

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