by Juan Villoro · Companhia das Letras · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788535924459
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«Arrecife» is the novel by Juan Villoro published by Companhia das Letras in paperback (240 pages, in Brazilian Portuguese).
Tony Góngora, marked by memory loss after years of drug abuse, agrees to work at La Pirámide, a resort in the Mexican Caribbean where tourists pay for extreme emotions and controlled dangers. When a hotel diver turns up dead, the crime plot intertwines with a story of friendship, love and redemption.
Novel originally published in 2012; this Brazilian Portuguese edition features a translation by Josely Vianna and won the José María Arguedas Narrative Prize in 2014.
For readers of contemporary Latin American fiction who enjoy suspense novels with social undertones and tormented characters.
Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz is a Mexican writer and journalist and the son of philosopher Luis Villoro. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his success among a wider readership has grown since receiving the Herralde Prize for his novel El testigo.
