|summary=An unlikely investigative collaboration between an old man and two young boys provides the setting for a murder mystery, swathed in a socio-political commentary of Brazil in the early 20th century. Fortunately the story is what drives it, and the characters are real enough to care about. Worth the read.
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''If I close my eyes now, I can still feel her sticky blood on my fingers'' This slow, strangely captivating novel starts with a memory.