Ways to disappear

a novel

258 pages

English language

Published July 13, 2016

ISBN:
978-0-316-29849-0
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OCLC Number:
910983906

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3 stars (2 reviews)

When Brazilian novelist Beatriz Yagoda suddenly disappears, her American translator Emma travels to Brazil to solve the mystery while fending off rapacious loan sharks and the washed-up editor who made Yagoda famous.

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1 star

I read this book because of all the positive reviews I read about it, so maybe I'm just missing something, but I found the style grating (especially the interspersed dictionary definitions), the characters one-dimensional and too sparsely-drawn, and the plot predictable. At least it's very short.

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Subjects

  • Missing persons
  • Brazilian Novelists
  • Translators in literature
  • Fiction

Places

  • Brazil