The Eternal Son (Volume 3) (Brazilian Literature in Translation Series)

An extraordinary account of a common human drama--the birth and parenting of a disabled child--investigated profoundly by a father who is a gifted writer "In this multi-award-winning autobiographical novel, Cristovão Tezza draws readers into the mind of a young father whose son, Felipe, is born with Down syndrome. From the initial shock of diagnosis, and through his growing understanding of the world of hospitals and therapies, Tezza threads the story of his son's life with his own. Felipe, who lives in an eternal present, becomes a remarkable young man; for Tezza, however, the story is a settling of accounts with himself and his own limitations and ultimately a coming to terms with the sublime ironies and arbitrariness of life. He struggles with the phantom of shame, as if his son's condition were an indication of his own worth, and yearns for a "normal" world that is always out of reach. Reading this compelling book is like stumbling through a trapdoor into the writer's mind, where nothing is censored and everything is constantly examined and reinterpreted." -- Provided by publisher Romance que aborda os conflitos de um homem que tem um filho com Síndrome de Down. O protagonista se mostra inseguro, medroso e envergonhado com a situação, mas aos poucos, com muito esforço, enfrenta a situação e passa a conviver amorosamente com o menino.