{"product_id":"after-life-9780822337881","title":"After Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith truth impossible to disentangle from invention, Tobias Hecht followed the lead of Verissimo, his would-be informant, creating characters, rendering a tale that didn't happen but that might have, probing at what it means to translate a life into words. This book is a tribute to and reinterpretation of the Latin American testimonio genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e is not only deeply moving, but written with profound integrity. It is saturated with compassion and in this lies its intense moral power.”—Anne Michaels, author of \u003ci\u003eFugitive Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A disturbingly powerful journey into the violence of everyday life and the inner world of literature. The enigmatic and courageous characters of \u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e jump off the page and change the ways we think about human agency today.”—João Biehl, author of \u003ci\u003eVita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e engages a startling mix of ethnography and fiction to illuminate both the world of Recife’s homeless and the peculiar ennui that often befalls the anthropologist during extended fieldwork. . . . Remarkable. . . . \u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e urges us to consider, more deeply than we have before, alternative modes of representation.” -- Robin E. Sheriff * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e“A call and response of truth and invention, mental illness and yearning, \u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a tribute to and reinterpretation of the Latin American testimonio genre. Desire, melancholy, longing, regret, and the hunger to live beyond the confines of past and future meet in this debut novel by Tobias Hecht.” * Adolescence *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Notes 12\u003cbr\u003e Part 1 17\u003cbr\u003e Part 2 77\u003cbr\u003e Part 3 121\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 181","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406042112343,"sku":"9780822337881","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/after-life-9780822337881","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}