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This is my favorite book from January #1stbookof2021 #12Booksof2021

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This book both starts and ends with “Everything in this book is invented but almost everything happened”. And this sums up the book. In the forward is says that 50.000 people where arbitrary arrested and 20.000 were tortured in Brazil, and this tells the story about one disappeared, a woman, and her father K that does everything to find her. We also meet her colleagues, informers and people on the other side.

#foodandlit #Brazil

How can a language disappear so quickly? The Germans had killed its readers and Stalin had killed its writers: he is repeating to himself what he never tires of saying in his talks back home.

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Ready to start my first book for #foodandlit #Brazil
From @Butterfinger review, I get that this is tough read
@Texreader

My heart is shredded. The author, a Brazilian journalist, loses his sister to "disappearing". The military dictatorship takes her because of political activism. He can't write about it unless he treats it as literature. I felt his anguish in his writing and it tore me to pieces.

This is the last book I will read on the old kindle. #FoodandLit @Texreader #Booked21 - author's first name #ReadHarder21 -non-European novel in translation

Brazil, which in 1964 was the first country in the region to suffer a US supported right wing coup, became an exporter of torture techniques, passing on lessons learned from the USA and post-colonial France.

#FoodandLit @Texreader

Sometimes, you wonder why there is such a thing as patriotism.