{"product_id":"diorama","title":"Diorama","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter years spent outrunning her past, Cecília reexamines the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect: a close friend and colleague in congress, Representative Raul Matzenbacher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany years later, Cecília Matzenbacher, his daughter, migrates from Southern Brazil to California, where she finds work as a taxidermist. Her temperament is ideally suited to this type of restoration and the careful reconstruction of a world frozen in time. But as Cecília confronts her own history and the memories of the investigation surrounding her father, her knack for composition frays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen news arrives that Raul has suffered a stroke and Cecília's chances to see him again may be limited, her past can no longer stay put, posed like a specimen behind glass. Her story emerges, the past stalking her present, threatening to derail the life she's made for herself in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn sleek, arresting prose imbued with the suspense-filled edge of a true-crime thriller, \u003ci\u003eDiorama\u003c\/i\u003e cements Carol Bensimon's status as one of the most dynamic voices in contemporary Brazilian literature and demonstrates her narrative gifts at their apex. Fusing police procedural, coming-of-age story, and family drama, \u003ci\u003eDiorama \u003c\/i\u003eis a moving mystery about how we remember what's passed, endangering our notions of what is or isn't still alive inside all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MCD","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":53259543183728,"sku":"9780374616038","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_8576acd6-c6d9-49cb-965e-826622c1ef87.jpg?v=1771429570","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/diorama","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}