{"product_id":"diorama","title":"Diorama","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter years spent outrunning her past, Cecília reexamines the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\u003cp\u003eIn sleek, arresting prose imbued with the suspense-filled edge of a true-crime thriller, Diorama 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, Diorama is 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":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51344495149280,"sku":"0374616035","price":4290.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9780374616038.jpg?v=1775289846","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/diorama","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}