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A remarkable novel written by the Brazilian journalist Bernardo Kucinski. K is the story of a father who searches desperately for his daughter, 'disappeared' during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The father is himself a refugee from Poland in the 1930s. He is racked by feelings of guilt--that because he was immersed in his Yiddish writing and scholarship, he did not really know his daughter or the danger that threatened her. The novel is based on a true story - the disappearance of Kucinski's younger sister in 1973. As the author says, 'Everything in this book is invented but almost everything happened'.The first Brazilian edition sold out in a few weeks, and the novel has been shortlisted for literary awards in Brazil and Portugal. Most recently it has been short-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015.… (meer)
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I enjoy and admire stories told through different characters and points of view; think Game of Thrones, 2666 by Bolaño, My Name is Red by Pamuk and Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. K uses the same multi-narrated structure but rather than characters the stories are about people living under the repressive military dictatorship of Brazil amidst the Cold War. The central story (fictional but based on a true story and as Kucinski explains: everything happened) is about ‘K’ a Polish Jew, a refugee who has escaped his country many years before and now resides in Brazil. At a time when many dissidents and suspected communists (apparently such South American dictatorial regimes were US funded so as to keep Communist influence out of the Americas) to the new dictatorship ‘disappear’ his daughter suddenly goes missing. Thus begins K’s struggle to find her. Through his desperate search and a series of fragmentary stories of citizens embroiled in a repressive hell, we are transported to a horrendous and terrifying period of history, to a country shrouded in fear and suspicion; we feel it all. All the worry, all the fear, the suspicion, the hope, the hopelessness, the loneliness, the exasperation, the desperation, the anger, the guilt and the sorrow.

It is an absolutely astounding work - incredibly powerful and well put together; these fragmentary stories Kucinski assembles are so well blended that they embody the whole life of a nation and time in a way that means you cannot help but understand the hardships faced. Books like this are important and as I understand it, this is one of the best on ‘the disappeared’. I can’t recommend this enough; as awareness to such government but also in order to read a book that holds so much of life and humanity (the good and the bad) so cleverly and so skilfully. Like it says on the cover, ‘it is both a riveting novel and an important historical document’ a great accomplishment. ( )
  Dzaowan | Feb 15, 2024 |
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A remarkable novel written by the Brazilian journalist Bernardo Kucinski. K is the story of a father who searches desperately for his daughter, 'disappeared' during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The father is himself a refugee from Poland in the 1930s. He is racked by feelings of guilt--that because he was immersed in his Yiddish writing and scholarship, he did not really know his daughter or the danger that threatened her. The novel is based on a true story - the disappearance of Kucinski's younger sister in 1973. As the author says, 'Everything in this book is invented but almost everything happened'.The first Brazilian edition sold out in a few weeks, and the novel has been shortlisted for literary awards in Brazil and Portugal. Most recently it has been short-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015.

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