The Lost World

by Patrícia Melo

Translated from the original Brazilian Portuguese by Clifford Landers

 

 

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Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Bloomsbury Publishing, UK.

 

Máiquel is an ex-contract killer who’s been a fugitive for ten years – ever since his girlfriend Erica ran off with his daughter, took up with an evangelical pastor and disappeared from his life. When his aunt dies, leaving him a house and a savings account, Máiquel has a fresh chance to find the lost world of his onetime family. Breaking all the rules in the book, including his own, he sets out on a relentless journey to seek revenge.    .(From Publisher).

LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS

Melo, a renowned and prize-winning writer, accomplishes in this sequel to a previous awarded novel, a surprisingly good story. She amazes us with her wondrous writing skills as the story speeds until the very end. The plot involves us with a character we come to sympathise with against all better judgement. What happens is that we just stop reading as the story finishes.

The author uses very incisive and short sentences to tell a hard-hitting revenge story, that takes the reader to the cool and cruel under world of a great country, Brazil. An interesting social analysis, where vice and crime justifies the purpose to be happy and have a high standard of life.