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Zusatztext Enigma's of Spring is longlisted for the "Brazilian Booker," prize for Novel of the Year, the 2016 Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura "Among our country's greatest authors. Brazil is summed up in his pages." -Moacyr Scliar Informationen zum Autor João Almino is the author of six novels, of which The Five Seasons of Love , The Book of Emotions , and Free City are available in English translation, the latter two from Dalkey Archive Press. He has taught at UC Berkeley, Stanford, The University of Chicago, the Autonomous National University of Mexico, and the University of Brasília. Rhett McNeil has translated work by Machado de Assis, António Lobo Antunes, and Gonçalo M. Tavares. Klappentext Majnun lives his life online in his grandparents' well-appointed home in the Brazilian capital. No school, no work--just bored in Brasilia. After falling in love with a married woman, however, he flees to Madrid with friends, intent on, well . . . something. Writing a historical novel about medieval Spain? Or perhaps converting to Islam and heading to North Africa? As Majnun floats through the crowds of Catholics, through encounters with legitimate medievalists, through romances, friendships, mosques, and palaces, his vague interests threaten to boil over into violent, even deadly action. Zusammenfassung Majnun lives his life online in his grandparents’ well-appointed home in the Brazilian capital. No school, no work—just bored in Brasília. After falling in love with a married woman, he flees to Madrid with friends, intent on, well … something. As the story progresses, his vague interests threaten to boil over into violent, even deadly action.
