Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters

The history of Brazil from 1500 to the present told by daughters down the matrilineal line.

About the author

A translator and writer, Maria José Silveira's first novel, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters, won a major Brazilian literary award and the rights were purchased by TV Globo. Since then, she has written six other books--including a couple highly praised YA titles--along with three plays.
Eric M. B. Becker is editor of Words without Borders and an award-winning journalist and literary translator. He received a PEN/Heim Translation grant for his work on Mia Couto, and has also translated works by Lygia Fagundes Telles, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Elvira Vigna, Noemi Jaffe, and others.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Jos Silveira, Maria Jose Silveira, Maria José Silveira
• Assisted by: Eric M B Becker (Translation), Eric M. B. Becker (Translation)
• Publisher: Open Letter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781940953670
• ISBN: 978-1-940953-67-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 213 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories