Late Summer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781635420203)

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and named a Best Summer Beach Read by BuzzFeed

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, Os駟as 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 L刕ia, when she was fifteen, lingers over Os駟as 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; Jo縊 L昱io and his isolation. All of them are branded by loneliness, but most of all Os駟as, 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.

Author: Luiz Ruffato
ISBN-10: 1635420202
ISBN-13: 9781635420203
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 07/06/2021
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/17/2021