The Love of Singular Men, Victor Heringer
The Love of Singular Men, Victor Heringer
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The Love of Singular Men

Author: Victor Heringer, James Young

Narrator: Adi Cabral

Unabridged: 5 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/25/2025


Synopsis

The gripping English debut of the famous and hugely talented Brazilian writer Victor Heringer, who died tragically young.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ALTA FIRST TRANSLATION PRIZE

In the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, one summer in the 1970s, a family—a husband and wife, their daughter, and their crippled teenage son Camilo—take in an orphan named Cosme. The boys unexpectedly fall in love, but an act of violence shatters their intimate world and changes their lives forever. Decades later, when Camilo returns to his hometown, he is haunted by his first love and the long shadow of Brazil's military dictatorship. At once an incisive and unforgiving study of Brazilian society and a fluid, queer coming-of-age story, Victor Heringer's exhilarating and moving novel is worthy of Machado de Assis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on February 12, 2025

Shortlisted for The ALTA First Translation Prize Runner up for the Society of Actuaries TA First Translation Prize How absurd it is to try to write Cosme, Cosme's ways, Cosme's words, the faces Cosme pulled. How I wish I had a photo of him to stick in here. (I don't know if I'd have the courage.) He n......more

Goodreads review by Marcela on April 15, 2018

Reler esse livro agora, que coisa difícil, doída e doida. Um dos romances mais importantes dos dias atuais, um choque. Um buraco. Um puta livro de um puta escritor. E a gente que perde, perde e dá vontade de nunca mais rrarrarrir. Vai bem, Victor Heringer.......more

Goodreads review by od1_40reads on June 05, 2023

Oh my… 💔😥 Finished this just last night… wow, this is a special book. Victor Heringer was a young, talented Brazilian writer, who tragically died too soon in 2018, just three weeks before his 30th birthday. The Love of Singular Men is translated into English by James Young and has just been published......more

Goodreads review by Troy on November 27, 2023

Written in prose as dense as the sun trying to shine through a thickly smogged sky, this novel was very much the work of a tortured mind — but an excellent meditation on the darkness and brutality of society, humans, life, and death. It’s a short novel, but it took me a few days to read in order to a......more

Goodreads review by Felipe on May 07, 2018

Não sou particularmente afeito aos remergulhos de releituras mas era preciso dar um aperto de mãos um abraço um afago e era preciso que o fim fosse próximo sempre foi era o amor por cosmim e pelo queím e a temperatura alta do romance melhores palavras de adeus e não até logo apenas tchau era preciso matar de......more