Noite Dentro Da Noite by Joca Reiners Terron

An adult narrator excavates fragmented memories of a 1970s childhood under the shadow of dictatorship, where family secrets, urban legends, and nightmares intertwine. As he reassembles a past haunted by violence and disappearance, the boundary between memory and invention dissolves, revealing how stories both conceal and expose trauma. The result is a haunting, hallucinatory coming-of-age that turns personal history into a labyrinth of fear, tenderness, and unreliable truths.