Nove Noites by Murilo Carvalho
A journalist becomes obsessed with unraveling the 1939 suicide of an American anthropologist in Brazil’s interior, reconstructing his final days through letters, interviews, and conflicting memories. As the investigation revisits his fraught immersion among the Krahô people, it exposes isolation, cultural misreadings, and the fragile boundary between empathy and projection. Blending documentary fragments with imaginative reconstruction, the narrative questions the reliability of testimony and the ethics of storytelling. What begins as a search for answers becomes a meditation on obsession, memory, and the limits of knowing another life.
- Published
- 2002
- Nationality
- Brazilian
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 176-208
- Original Language
- Portuguese
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- Alternate Titles
- - Nine Nights
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