Nine Nights

by Bernardo Carvalho

Book Overview

In August 1939, a brilliant, privileged twenty-seven-year-old American ethnologist commits suicide in Brazil, leaving behind seven letters suggesting different motives. To some he said he had contracted a terrible disease; to others he claimed he could not recover from his wife's affair with his brother (though he was neither married, nor had a brother). Intrigued by the mystery, our narrator gathers the fragmentary evidence and sets out to discover...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099470330
• ISBN13: 9780099470335
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Vintage Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"