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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Fim é um excelente começo de uma carreira literária. Fernanda Torres conseguiu fazer um livro que sendo muito pessoal e fruto da sensibilidade e experiência da autora é ao mesmo tempo um tributo a grandes autores cariocas como Stanislaw Ponte Preta, João do Rio, Nelson Rodrigues e Rubem Fonseca. A história, ou as histórias se ambientam na zona sul do Rio e tem como principais personagens Eros e Thanatos. Sexo e morte. Todos os personagens são coadjuvantes desses dois, e cada um é escrutinado nos seus mais íntimos recônditos como se fossem títeres ora de Eros ora de Thanatos. Um padre serve de contraponto alheio ao grande embate entre o sexo e a morte e com sua perspectiva ao mesmo tempo grandiosa e simplória da transcendência. Os diversos personagens formam um grande mosaico em que as pedras se recusam a se encaixar no plano maior. Surpreendendo a cada página pela sensibilidade crescente, pela trama bem construída e por personagens densos o texto não deixa nada a desejar. no reviews | add a review
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In this deadly-funny debut novel by renowned Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, five macho friends in Rio's Copacabana reflect on their hedonistic glory days--now supplanted by the indignities of aging--in what turn out to be their final moments. With uncanny insight into the less virtuous corners of the male psyche, Fernanda Torres brings us five friends who once milked the high life of Rio's Bossa Nova age and are now left with memories--parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, bad decisions--and the grim realities of getting old. Álvaro lives alone and bemoans the evils of his ex-wife. Sílvio can't give up the excesses of sex and drugs. Ribeiro is a vain, Viagra-abusing beach bum. Neto is the square, a faithful husband until the end. Ciro is the Don Juan envied by all--but the first to die. Cutting in on these swan songs are the testimonies of those the men seduced, cheated, loved, and abandoned: their wives and children. Edgy, funny, and wise, The End is a candid tropical tragicomedy and an epitaph for a lost generation of machos. No library descriptions found. |
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"The End" by Fernanda Torres tells the story of five men who came of age in '60s Rio de Janeiro. The men are all arrogant pleasure-seekers who care little for anyone else. Supposedly friends, they all have intertwining rivalries and relationships that never get sorted out. This makes the book read like a great soap opera.
Amid descriptions of youthful sexual indulgences, readers are given small tastes of what aging might be like. These glimpses of aging, however, are few and far between. The bulk of the book is about the men's sexual conquest's, drug use, and eventual divorces. I found Torres' insights about aging to be very smart, but they were rare.
There are occasional run-ins with artifacts from Rio's heyday. The names of brilliant singers are dropped throughout the novel, as her encounters with bikini beach culture.
Fernanda Torres is a fun writer and the translation by Alison Entrekin flows very, very well. Unfortunately, the books biggest problem is that it is difficult to keep the characters and their families straight. Perhaps this points more toward the faults of a poor reader than anything else. ( )