Field of Stars -

Thales Guaracy

Copacabana

2014

192 páginas

6h 24m

ISBN-13: 9788565397469

A successful Brazilian advertising executive discovers in his routine examinations a polyp in the bladder that will make him review his life and try to retrieve it, despite not even knowing how much time he has got left. His fight against cancer and fear of death is intertwined by memories of an intrepid journey to Machu Picchu in Peru, made in adolescence with his father, his first encounter with the mysteries of life. The intriguing reappearance of a character that emerges from that past, mixed as a beggar and an angel, becomes the hope of meeting with spiritual peace and redemption of life. Through the journey of father and son together in search of the unknown, Thales Guaracy guides us on a road book where the path to the lost city of Machu Picchu is also a journey through the depths of the heart.

''Testimony of the force represented by the determination in extreme situations, Field of Stars goes beyond the reductionism of the literature of self-help to make it as an emotional story of the great human questions.''
Ubiratan Brasil, O Estado de S. Paulo

''The grief that dominates the contemporary man looking for answers to his questions and the search for a path that allows to cross the scary gaps foreseen by Pascal underlie the pages of this book that rises in the contemporary Brazilian literature.''
Geraldo Galvão Ferraz

Resenhas (1)

5 (Perfeito)

A novel that teaches

This novel will touch you, give you goosies and make you cry... When the main character Pascal finds himself with a rare type of cancer, it forces him to reconsider his life and try to redeem it. The first memory coming from his mind is when he was younger and traveled with his father to Machu Picchu, Peru. That trip has put him in touch with many mysteries that still instigate the world.
All these memories come along with a character from the past that mysteriously reappears as an angel that makes Pascal founding peace with himself. The cure for the disease becomes secondary to the amount of relevant things he learns from the present and the past... And certainly the reader will learn with it.