His Own Man - Couverture souple

Ribeiro, Edgard Telles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1922247383 ISBN 13 : 9781922247384

Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2014

Synopsis

In this award-winning novel, acclaimed Brazilian writer Edgard Telles Ribeiro illuminates a dark corner of his country’s history.

Marcilio Andrade Xavier is a charismatic young diplomat whose intelligence is matched only by his ambition. During the military dictatorship of 1964–1985, Max’s artful manoeuvring ― political and personal ― assures him a meteoric career as democracies topple throughout South America. Yet Max remains an enigma to his colleagues, his friends, and even his wife, who know few details of his involvement with oppressive regimes, let alone the CIA and MI6.

Amid embassy machinations, glittering parties, dire acts, and revealing intimate encounters, one of Max’s younger colleagues starts piecing together who Max really is, and at what cost he has purchased his dazzling career.

A political thriller of the highest order, His Own Man is a chilling anatomy of power, ambition, and betrayal.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Edgard Telles Ribeiro spent a peripatetic childhood in Marseille and other European ports of call determined by his father’s diplomatic postings. Eventually he returned to Brazil, where he worked as a journalist, filmmaker, and professor of film studies before entering the foreign service. His novels and short-story collections have garnered some of Brazil’s most important literary prizes, including the Jabuti Prize (twice), the Brazilian Academy of Letters Prize, and, for His Own Man, the Brazilian PEN Prize. He currently divides his time between New York and Rio de Janeiro.

Kim M. Hastings lived in São Paulo for several years, studied Brazilian language and literature at Brown University, and received a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale. She is a freelance editor and translator, and has worked with a number of Brazilian writers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scribe Publications
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1922247383
• ISBN 13: 9781922247384
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible