The Fall

A memoir set in four-hundred-twenty-two passages--one for each step the author's disabled son takes towards the hospital where he had been born--draws on art history and culture to explain his son's avoidable mishap.

About the author

Diogo Mainardi is a Brazilian writer, journalist, and TV commentator, known for his articles in Brazil's largest weekly magazine, Veja.

Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for over twenty-five years and has translated many novels and short stories by Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin American writers, including Javier Marías and José Saramago. She has won various prizes for her work, including, in 2008, the PEN Book-of-the-Month Translation Award and the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her version of Eça de Queiroz's masterpiece The Maias, and, most recently, the 2011 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago. She lives in Leicester, England.

Product details

• Authors: Diogo Mainardi, Diogo/ Costa Mainardi
• Assisted by: Margaret Jull Costa (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 07.10.2014, delayed
• EAN: 9781590517000
• ISBN: 978-1-59051-700-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)