{"product_id":"diorama-9780374616038","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Bensimon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MCD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374616038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Bensimon\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1982. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eO Clube dos Jardineiros de Fumaça\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Jabuti Award, the most prestigious literary award in Brazil, and was short-listed for the São Paulo Prize for Literature. She is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWe All Loved Cowboys\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSinuca embaixo d'água\u003c\/i\u003e and of the acclaimed story collection \u003ci\u003ePó de parede\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2012 she was selected by \u003ci\u003eGranta \u003c\/i\u003eas one of the Best Young Brazilian Novelists. Bensimon has a master's degree in creative writing from PUCRS and lives with her wife in Mendocino, California. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eZoë Perry\u003c\/b\u003e's translations of contemporary Brazilian fiction have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAstra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her translation of \"My Good Friend\" by Juliana Leite, published in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, was awarded a National Magazine Award for Fiction and was selected by Amor Towles for a 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction. Perry's translation of \u003ci\u003eOf Cattle and Men\u003c\/i\u003e by Ana Paula Maia won the 2024 Republic of Consciousness prize and the inaugural Cercador Prize, and was short-listed for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia Sanches\u003c\/b\u003e translates works from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eSlash and Burn\u003c\/i\u003e by Claudia Hernández, for which she won a PEN\/Heim Award, as well as works by Noemi Jaffe, Daniel Galera, and Geovani Martins. 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