Edilson Pereira lança "Livro do Peixes". Veja na entrevista que o escritor concedeu a Ligiane Ciola

Edilson Pereira Launches “The Fish Book” The writer and journalist's final literary endeavor compiles articles published on his social media during the years he cared for his nearly centenarian aunt in Maringá. The 22nd and final literary endeavor of journalist and writer Edilson Pereira is a collection of articles published on his Facebook profile during the years he cared for his nearly centenarian aunt in Maringá. Like a fisherman who pulls in his nets and gathers his fish, Edilson collected from his social media all the "fish" he had left there since the first months of 2022. “When I came, it was to stay a few weeks with my aunt, and two months later, I came to stay permanently to care for her until her death at the end of October last year. With a few exceptions, full-time. While she slept, which she did for a large part of the day, I wrote my books and texts for Facebook,” explains Edilson. The 460-page volume, titled with the metaphor ‘Book of Fishes,’ brings together 130 chronicles that take the reader on a virtual journey through the city of Maringá, but not only that; they are memories of events and encounters with old friendships built from his youth in Zone 2, passing through all the others he made during his professional careers at newspapers such as Folha de Londrina, Agência Folha de Notícias, O Diário do Norte do Paraná, Tribuna do Paraná, and O Estado do Paraná. In an interview with Ligiane Ciola, the writer explains how literature, which has always been intertwined with his own existence, was also a refuge for a man who, at 71, had to leave Curitiba and return to Maringá to care for his aunt for four long years. Writing and sharing online was the way Edilson found to take care of his own mental health. The nephew, a writer, recounts in the interview that before passing away, two months shy of her 100th birthday, his aunt thanked him, saying, “What he had done, nobody else does.” “It became a dysfunctional novel. Or a fragmented one, about a caregiver and a woman nearing her centenary. My aunt is rarely mentioned because she is the central figure in the book “The End,” from 2024. In this one, there are texts about my daily life: encounters with friends, dreams, readings, etc. I chose the title “The Book of Fish” because they are texts cast into the net and then fished out.” It's a collection of various styles (chronicles, short stories, biography, reviews, diary entries, articles, testimonials, obituaries, and notes) that intertwine. 'The Book of Fish' can be purchased directly from the author on Facebook; just click HERE; or at Sebo Multimania, located on Rua Joubert de Carvalho, almost at the corner of Avenida São Paulo. Receive our news via WhatsApp Follow OFATOMARINGA.COM on Instagram