Dueto dos ausentes
Duet of the Absentees
by Fernando Rinaldi
Editora Reformatório 2024
288 pages
14×21 cm
A singular and intense work, full of vivid moments, affection, sex, mourning. A queer novel about grief, identity, and the power of the written word and language.
A middle-aged psychoanalyst named Hélio begins to write a diary after losing his only son on the day Jair Bolsonaro was elected,
in a car accident that he believes was premeditated. Then, Hélio recreates his son in fiction as Heitor, a boy who never knew his father, and retraces his years before the fatality. Heitor also becomes one of the novel’s narrators and talks about his discoveries regarding sexuality, death, and literature itself. This novel is a journey through the desire of building within ourselves, as part of our own conception, the other that we miss.
Rights available: World
Represented in collaboration with MTS Agência
Fernando Rinaldi was born in São Paulo (SP). He holds degrees in International Relations (PUC-SP) and in Literature (USP), and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at FFLCH-USP. Active in the publishing industry since 2012, he has spent several years working with the licensing of Brazilian titles for translation and adaptation into other formats at Companhia das Letras. Between 2019 and 2020, he completed the postgraduate program Formação de Escritores (Writers’ Training) at Instituto Vera Cruz, where he developed his debut novel, Dueto dos ausentes (Reformatório).
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