Penguin
February 2016
On Sale: February 16, 2016
Featuring: Teo Avelar
ISBN: 1594206406 EAN: 9781594206405 Kindle: B00XVB9BRI Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his
dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across
Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most
celebrated young crime writers.
Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother
and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends,
and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the
presence of his medical school cadaver—that is, until he
meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic,
spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. An aspiring
screenwriter, she's working on a screenplay called Perfect
Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil
in search of romance. Teo is obsessed. He begins to stalk
her, first following her to her university, then to her
home, and when she ultimately rejects him, he kidnaps her
and they embark upon their very own twisted odyssey across
Brazil, tracing the same route outlined in her screenplay.
Through it all, Teo is certain that time is all he needs to
prove to Clarice that they are made for each other, that
time is all he needs to make her fall in love with him. But
as the journey progresses, he keeps digging himself deeper
and deeper into a pit that he can't get out of, stopping at
nothing to ensure that no one gets in the way of their life
together. Both tense and lurid, and brimming with suspense
from the very first page, Perfect Days is a psychological
thriller in the vein of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented
Mr. Ripley—a chilling journey in the passenger seat with a
psychopath, and the English language debut of one of
Brazil's most deliciously dark young writers.
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