{"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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0374616035\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780374616038\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Bensimon, Carol, Perry, Zoë, Sanches, Julia\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: MCD\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MCD","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Mar 2026)","offer_id":46080847052997,"sku":"9780374616038","price":26.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780374616038.jpg?v=1776040785","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/diorama","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}