The Day I Killed My Father - Softcover

'... absorbing and at times quite funny, and it left me feeling decidedly spooked.'

‘Mario Sabino handles his subject with humour and imagination.’

‘I couldn’t put the book down. Chilling and sad, even on the same page, this book is one of the best I have read for a long time.’

'This Brazilian bestseller by Mario Sabino, is both charming and chilling ... An impressive debut from one of Brazil's most exciting novelists.'

' ... a striking first novel.'

'Intellectual, compelling and darkly humourous, the reader is driven to the conclusion with voyeuristic horror.'

‘Mario Sabino’s book, it is worth stressing, flows and is fun to read. There is nothing ‘difficult’ here – rather there is much food for thought.’

‘Mario Sabino has not sought to comfort. With courage, with malice, with humour he prefers to perturb, dismantling everything that our intelligence has conceived in the frustrated attempt to give a little order and sense to reality.’

Mario Sabino was born in São Paulo in 1962. He is deputy managing editor of Veja, Brazil’s most influential weekly magazine. His second book, a collection of short stories, O Antinarciso (The Antinarcissist), won the Brazilian National Library’s Clarice Lispector Award. He has completed his second collection of short stories, A Boca da Verdade (The Mouth of Truth), and is currently working on his second novel, entitled O Vicio do Amor (Addicted to Love).