Antônio Xerxenesky

Malgré tout la nuit tombe

Even Though, It’s Getting Dark

January 24, 2019
Novel
224 pages
145 × 200 mm
20 €
9782918767848
978-2-9187-6784-8
Traduit du portugais (Brésil) par
Mélanie Fusaro

“Fictions” collection

																Antônio Xerxenesky, Malgré tout la nuit tombe
																Antônio Xerxenesky, Malgré tout la nuit tombe

“There’s a reason why Lovecraft’s tales are set in abandoned villages and hamlets, forgotten by the rest of the world. There’s a reason why horror films are set far from the metropolis. Because the supernatural cannot withstand raw white light, it depends on shadows, on a place far from everything to exist.”

Alina is almost thirty years old and lives in São Paulo. A doctoral student in the history of religions, she spends her days in front of a computer on the twenty-first floor of a skyscraper, trapped in a food job in advertising. She struggles to overcome a family bereavement and gradually loses her joie de vivre. Until the day she is contacted by the police, who need her knowledge to unmask a sect suspected of kidnapping. What if this was a unique opportunity to break her routine? To take charge of her life and find meaning in the questions that beset her?
A day and a night will be enough to shake Alina’s certainties, and by the same token those of a whole generation anaesthetized by her daily life. In Malgré tout la nuit tombe, Antônio Xerxenesky brings out the irrational in our Cartesian existences, awakening our deepest anxieties.

The author

Antônio Xerxenesky was born in Porto Alegre in 1984. His first novel, Avaler du sable earned him the distinction of being one of the best contemporary Brazilian novelists by Granta magazine. His second novel F was selected for the Foreign Medici Prize in 2016.

January 24, 2019
Novel
224 pages
145 × 200 mm
20 €
9782918767848
978-2-9187-6784-8
Traduit du portugais (Brésil) par
Mélanie Fusaro

“Fictions” collection