Book, Melancholic Reptile, O[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. "Winning book of the 2021 Sesc Literature Prize in the Romance category. The melancholic reptile, Fábio Horácio-Castro's debut novel, tells an alternative reality, in which the state of Pará remained a Portuguese colony until the 1960s. When the Military Dictatorship, After negotiating with Portugal, he takes control of the Pará colony, some characters are forced to leave Belém and go into exile in search of safety. The book narrates Felipe's return to his city after a long period of exile, taken by his mother, persecuted and tortured by the Brazilian military regime. Upon his return, Felipe reestablishes contact with his paternal family, especially with his cousin Miguel, who is leaving the city. In this story of repression, return and escape, the two cousins ​​live in opposite exiles. According to the poet and fiction writer Luci Collin, who signs the book's cover, “The melancholic reptile gives us a world of undeniably courageous and necessary perceptions.” As for the novelist Marcos Peres, who signs the fourth cover, “[The work] is enormous for moving between niches, for disdaining labels. It is Literature, capitalized, that welcomes and breaks, that blasphemes and redeems. And, at this small altar, I kneel, I catalog myself in the position of an amazed reader.” "