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A man wakes up at dawn to drive to the Andes, to climb the Cerro Bonete - a hill untouched by ice axes and climbers, one of the planet's last mountains to be conquered - as an action of heroic bravado - or foolishness. But instead he locates himself dragged by the undertow of recollection to Esplanada, a nearby he grew up in, to the brotherhood of his old friends, and to the clearing in the woods where he witnessed an action that has run like a scar through the others of his life. Back Esplanada, the young man revisits his initiation into adulthood and recalls his boyhood friends who made a unusual and volatile pack. Jointly they play video gaming, get drunk around bonfires, pick out battles, and goad one another into bicycle races where in fact the victor is the guy who has the most amazing crash. Caught between your threat of not being man enough, the desire to please his friends, and the intoxicating contact high of danger, the guy finds himself following a guidelines of the pack even as the risks support. And in an instant that reverberates and repeats itself in new ways in his adulthood, his fantasies of who he's and what this means to be always a man come crashing down, and life asserts itself as an countless rehearsal for a heroic instant that may never arrive. From one of Brazil's most amazing writers, The Shape of Bones is an exhilarating history of mythic power. Daniel Galera has written a pulse-racing novel with the otherworldly intelligence of a parable.
