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The Shape of Bones: A Novel
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The Shape of Bones: A Novel
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The Shape of Bones: A Novel
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The Shape of Bones: A Novel

Written by Daniel Galera

Narrated by Charlie Anson

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"A book of visceral and tender beauty whose echoes persist long after the final page." 
—David Mitchell, author of The Bone Clocks

A coming of age tale of brutal beauty and disarming tenderness from one of Brazil's most exciting young novelists, an author writing in the footsteps of "Roberto Bolaño, Jim Harrison, the Coen brothers and...Denis Johnson" (The New York Times)

A young man wakes up at dawn to drive to the Andes, to climb the Cerro Bonete--a mountain untouched by ice axes and climbers, one of the planet's final mountains to be conquered--as an act of heroic bravado, or foolishness. But instead, he finds himself dragged, by the undertow of memory, to Esplanada, the neighborhood he grew up in, to the brotherhood of his old friends, and to the clearing in the woods where he witnessed an act that has run like a scar through the rest of his life.

Back in Esplanada, the young man revisits his initiation into adulthood and recalls his boyhood friends who formed a strange and volatile pack. Together they play video games, get drunk around bonfires, pick fights, and goad each other into bike races where the winner is the boy who has the most spectacular crash. Caught between the threat of not being man enough, the desire to please his friends, and the intoxicating contact-high of danger, the boy finds himself following the rules of the pack even as the risks mount. And in a moment that reverberates and repeats itself in new ways in his adulthood, his fantasies of who he is and what it means to be a man come crashing down, and life asserts itself as an endless rehearsal for a heroic moment that may never arrive.

From one of Brazil's most dazzling writers, The Shape of Bones is an exhilarating story of mythic power. Daniel Galera has written a pulse-racing novel with the otherworldly wisdom of a parable.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 15, 2017
ISBN9781524776985
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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A 30 year old doctor starts out to pick up his friend to go on a rock climbing adventure and winds up changing his life, even though he neither meets his friend nor reaches the mountain. I'm actually assuming that Hermano's life will be changed by his trip down memory lane in his old neighborhood, because the ending of the book is annoyingly unresolved. It's entirely possible that he won't change anything and will continue to act like a thrill seeking adolescent to cover his feelings of inadequacy. Who knows? The parts of the book describing the 15 year old Hermano felt very real, although I couldn't really relate to his emphasis on physical and dangerous challenges. Maybe it's more of a male thing. I thought the book was well written and I would read more by this author. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I just could not get into this book. The writing wasn't bad, it just didn't pull me into the story and grab my attention. I felt more like I needed to read it because I got it from Penguin Random House First to Read Program but I just can't do it. I have way too many books to spend time on one that doesn't distract me and pull me into the lives of the characters.