Diorama, (Paperback)

<p><b>After years spent outrunning her past, Cecília reexamines the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father. </b></p><p>In 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect: a close friend and colleague in congress, Representative Raul Matzenbacher. </p><p>Many years later, Cecília Matzenbacher, his daughter, migrates from Southern Brazil to California, where she finds work as a taxidermist. Her temperament is ideally suited to this type of restoration and the careful reconstruction of a world frozen in time. But as Cecília confronts her own history and the memories of the investigation surrounding her father, her knack for composition frays. </p><p>When news arrives that Raul has suffered a stroke and Cecília's chances to see him again may be limited, her past can no longer stay put, posed like a specimen behind glass. Her story emerges, the past stalking her present, threatening to derail the life she's made for herself in the United States. </p><p>In sleek, arresting prose imbued with the suspense-filled edge of a true-crime thriller, <i>Diorama</i> cements Carol Bensimon's status as one of the most dynamic voices in contemporary Brazilian literature and demonstrates her narrative gifts at their apex. Fusing police procedural, coming-of-age story, and family drama, <i>Diorama </i>is a moving mystery about what and how we remember, a novel that endangers our notions of what is or isn't still alive inside all of us.</p>

• Diorama, (Paperback)
• Author: Carol Bensimon
• ISBN: 9781250468710
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-03-02
• Page Count: 272