The Amateur Sleepwalker

the main character in the amateur sleepwalker is a humble security worker in a textile industry located in rural Pernambuco, Brazil. while driving to the state’s capital, recife, he goes mad and sets fire to the company car. the story alternates his memories and dreams with accounts of his present life living in an asylum. the cover seeks to illustrate his frenzy by the kaleidoscopic repetition of a photograph of a textile industry.

Alfaguara, 2012
15 × 234 cm

Covers

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