Noite (Book)

Infobox Book |
name = Noite
title_orig = Noite
setting = urban Porto Alegre, Brazil, sometime in the 50's
sub-setting = nighttime, from approx. 20:00 to early morning next day
author = Érico Veríssimo
cover_artist =
country = Brazil
language = Portuguese
series =
genre = Drama, Mystery
publisher =
release_date = 1954
media_type = Print (Paperback)

Noite is a novel, wrote by the famed Brazilian writer ÉricoVeríssimo in 1954.

In the 1950s, a man finds himself in the middle of the streets of Porto Alegre with a wallet full of money... and no memory of any past events.

He finds two "vultures of the night", enigmatic noctivague figures with a high penchant for bohemian lifestyle. The "vultures" (called The Master and The Hunchback) takes the man in a surrealistic journey through the darkest places of the city, to "enjoy the night": a funeral parlor, the emergency service of a hospital, a deluxe whorehouse and a low-level working class cabaret.

At the same time, the two enigmatic figures subreptitiously try to make the man-with-no-memoryassume that he comited a horrendous crime early night,in which a woman was subject of a brutal passion-related crime and no perpetrator was yet arrested by the police.

The book has a unique atmosphere in depicting the low-level bohemy that crowded some places in the Brazilian urban legends.

In the 1980s, Brazilian film director José Louzeiro conducted a movie loosely based on the book.