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020			_a9781804270851
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a981.06092 _bBOR/WH
100			_aJose Henrique Bortoluci
245			_aWHAT IS MINE
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bFitzcarraldo Editions _c2024
300			_g147
500			_a A genre-bending and thought-provoking examination of capitalism and cancer – and recent Brazilian history – based on the author's interviews with his truck driver father. In What Is Mine, sociologist José Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s, Didi’s work as a truck driver took him away from home for long stretches at a time as he crisscrossed the country and participated in huge infrastructure projects including the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a scheme spearheaded by the military dictatorship of the time, undertaken through brutal deforestation. An observer of history, Didi also recounts the toll his work has taken on his health, from a heart attack in middle age to the cancer that defines his retirement. Bortoluci weaves the history of a nation with that of a man, uncovering parallels between cancer and capitalism – both sustained by expansion, both embodiments of ‘the gospel of growth at any cost’ – and tracing the distance that class has placed between him and his father. Influenced by authors such as Annie Ernaux and Svetlana Alexievich, is a moving, thought-provoking and brilliantly constructed examination of the scars we carry, as people and as countries.
650			_aHistory & geography
650			_aSouth America Brazil
650			_aBy Period Second Republic: 1930-
700			_aRahul Bery (tr.)
942			_cLEN
942			_2ddc
999			_c197112 _d197112