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Book · 2012
Desnorteio
Set across the interior of São Paulo in the late twentieth century, the novel follows three siblings driven into begging. Interweaving their fragmented memories with the contemporary reflections of a forty-year-old narrator, the story explores family fracture, madness, and social marginalization without easy explanations.
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Paula Fábrio deftly positioned her striking debut novel, Desnorteio, at a fluctuating and precise juncture between traditional storytelling and aesthetic experimentation. It is an ingenious strategy for revitalizing literary interest through well-worn themes—a considerable feat.
Moacir Amâncio on O Estado de S. Paulo I have noted in previous reviews and reiterate here my profound sympathy for writers who treat their characters with affection. They do not shield them from life, which is seldom easy, yet the characters are cradled by an author who genuinely cares for them. Paula Fábrio is one such writer: confronting the harshness of reality and the conflicting emotions brought by illness and vulnerability head-on, unsentimentally, yet with deep tenderness.
From Trecho Predileto Literatura In fact, the book’s best moments arise when Paula Fábrio kicks into one of several secondary stories, which she guides with clean, subtle, and always meticulously crafted prose. When she narrates without pretension what she might consider less important, that is when her writing grows and shines the brightest.
Luiz Paulo Faccioli on Rascunho
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