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MILTON HATOUM Editor’s Note e Th following is from Milton Hatoum’s novel e L Th ongest Night, the first in a three-part series. In this excerpt, the narrator, Martim, is living in Paris in the 1970s and recalling his turbulent adolescence during the violent anos de chumbo (“lead years”), from 1964 to 1985, when Brazil was ruled by an authoritarian, military dictatorship. Following his parents’ traumatic separa- tion in the 1960s, he moved with his father from São Paulo to Brasília, the new federal capital. er Th e, he slowly became involved with a group of fellow students who began challenging the dictatorship. e Th rest of the novel details how, as the relationships among Martim’s family members deteriorate further, he becomes radicalized, setting off the chain of events that leads to his departure from Brazil. Winter and silence. Not a single letter from Brazil. Paris, December 1977 A frozen city, though not always a still one: noisy tourists crossing a bridge over the Seine. We come from the same country, we walk toward opposite banks. Are these voices, this laughter real? Today, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, my student—a young Frenchman—invited me for a cup of coe ff e. He wanted
Manoa – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Feb 7, 2019
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