The Love of Singular Men

Victor Heringer, James Young

Publisher: Peirene Press Ltd
Publication Date: 11/07/2023 ISBN: 9781908670779 Category:
Paperback / Softback

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Rio de Janeiro, the 1970s. One hot Brazilian summer, Camilo meets Cosme and the two teenage boys discover a new kind of tenderness. But an act of violence will shatter their intimate world, and change the trajectory of their young lives. At once an incisive exploration of Brazilian society and a moving account of first love, first grief and revenge, The Love of Singular Men is a powerful and exhilarating novel, which sparkles with wit and playful ingenuity throughout.

Publisher Review

'When you read something genuinely new it's hard to describe it - you end up settling for comparisons - and The Love of Singular Men is truly a singular novel. It's ingenious like Cortazar or Nabokov, elliptical like Grace Paley, funny like Donald Barthelme. Upon finishing it you want to immediately meet the young man who wrote it, shake him vigorously by the hand and congratulate him on the beginning of a brilliant career. But Victor Heringer is gone. He left this beautiful book behind.' - Zadie Smith; 'Inventive, surprising and unsparing, The Love of Singular Men is just so unusually vivid. It's an unforgettable book, as sad as it is beautiful, as full of love as it is tragic.' - Wendy Erskine, author of Dance Move and Sweet Home; 'An electrifying, passionate piece of writing - unlike anything I've read. What a loss. What a book.' - Toby Litt, author of A Writer's Diary and Patience; 'One of the best novels of recent years.' - Asymptote; 'Heringer had little time to live, but he marked an entire generation of writers and readers.' - O Globo

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