O sol na cabeça Reader Î 120 pages Download

Book O sol na cabeça

O sol na cabeça Reader Î 120 pages Download ¼ Em O Sol na Cabeça Geovani Martins narra a infância e a adolescência de garotos para uem às angústias e dificuldades próprias da idade soma se a violência de crescer no lado menos favorecido da “Cidade partida” o Rio de Janeiro das primeiras décadas do século XXIEm “RoléziMa realidade Em “Estação Padre Miguel” cinco amigos se veem sob a mira dos fuzis dos traficantes locaisNesses e nos outros contos chama a atenção a capacidade narrativa do escritor pintando com cores vivas personagens e ambientes sem nunca perder o suspense e o foco na ação Na literatura brasileira contemporânea ue tantas vezes negligencia a trama em favor de supostas experimentações formais O sol na cabeça surge como uma mais ue bem vinda novida After the blast from the shots he was enveloped by a silence and darkness unlike any he'd known It wasn't long before he'd grasped everything around him buzzing from certainty after certainty surging through his veins It was clear now he really was meant to be there This was his life and his story and though he felt weak and selfish he realized he could no longer fight the inevitable Before he passed out he dreamed of the day he'd return there and throw his name up on both buildings side by side Loki — The Tag Geovani MartinsLooking back on my childhood — mid ’90s Pontiac Michigan Detroit’s scruffier sibling — my surroundings seemed as real a ghetto to me back then as it does now in my late twentiesIn retrospect I remember the times fondly basketballs and ice cream trucks rounding every block our bare feet against warm concrete pockets bulging with Now and Laters the sun licking down our backs Mama’s scream signally curfew Nevermind what came next — the salvo of gunshots slicing through the night sky bandits descending sometimes empty houses sometimes not be it for mischief or survival This was our city our home our favelaMaybe that is why I tethered myself to the conscientious tales of Geovani Martins' soul baring debut collection The Sun on My Head a love letter not only to Rio de Janeiro and all its ineluctable terrors but an aching appeal to be set free from its graspIn Martins’ breakout success which became a literary sensation in the author’s native Brazil last year young men find themselves bound to so many sufferings Fathers toil to keep themselves alive for their families drug busts send dealers on a mad dash stalkers lurk like shadows boys perform rituals involving ghosts and other armaments gangs rival on day and night leaving a smog of burning bodies in their wake A reformed ex tagger’s sudden retirement comes at an unthinkable cost in “The Tag”; “Russian Roulette” observers a son finding strength through the barrel of his father’s gun; our protagonist anticipates his execution one among the many in the city gone unaccounted in “Padre Miguel Station”In thirteen phenomenal parables Martins reminds us not all men are born with a seed of wickedness where a heart should be That those men were boys first wistful boys cursed with a life sentence — a perrengue “difficulty” — of proving themselves man enough to defeat this destiny once and for allThank you FSG for allowing Paperback Paris to read Geovani Martins’ debut collection ahead of its release If you liked my review feel free to follow me parisperusing on Instagram