The Heart's Invisible Furies -

John Boyne

Hogarth Press

2017

582 páginas

19h 24m

ISBN-10: 1524760781

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he?

Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more.

In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.

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Melhor leitura de 2018

Pois é, comecei 2018 com a melhor leitura do ano. Este livro, do mesmo autor de ?O Garoto do Pijama Listrado? é a meu ver uma obra prima. Conta a história de um homem homossexual a cada 7 anos de sua vida. Nascido na Irlanda nos anos 40, onde homossexualismo era considerado crime, passando pelos anos 80, auge do horror causado pela AIDS. Nosso personagem é bastante sem graça, mas ele é cercado de pessoas interessantíssimas, personagens estes que não nunca estão à toa na história. Narrando em primeira pessoa, John Boyne faz um retrato das agruras, penas e alegrias de Cyril Avery com maestria.