It's a short book, but with a profound and sweeping ambition. It's an intimate book, but not at all shameless, and with a militantly communal dimension. It's a raw book, but with a love and a delicacy that are moving. And it's a book that seems like a small book, but in reality, contains many books. It's titled, simply, Mine, although the Catalan edition, in a good translation by Pere Comellas, has added the following explanatory subtitle: A son's journey to his father, an intimate account that reveals Brazil's recent history.The author is José Henrique Bortoluci (Jaú, 1984), a son of a modest family—a Brazilian working class family, always on the brink of poverty—who, thanks to a brilliant academic record that allowed him to obtain all kinds of scholarships, earned his doctorate in sociology from the University of Michigan and is now a professor and writer.