Sevastopol

Three subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, each burrowing into a turning point in a person's life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest; a Peruvian-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after staying in a musty, semi-abandoned inn in the haunted depths of the Brazilian countryside; a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the city of Sevastopol and a Russian painter portraying Crimean War soldiers.
Inspired by Tolstoy's The Sevastopol Sketches, Emilio Fraia masterfully weaves together these stories of yearning and loss, obsession and madness, failure and the desire to persist, in a restrained manner reminiscent of Anton Chekhov, Roberto Bolaño, and Rachel Cusk.

About the author

Emilio Fraia was born in Sao Paulo in 1982. Sevastopol, his third book, was one of the winners of the Biblioteca Nacional Prize and a finalist for the Oceanos Prize and Jabuti Prize. One of Granta's Best Young Brazilian Writers, Fraia is an editor and has been awarded a Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship.

Product details

• Authors: Emilio Fraia, Zoe Perry
• Assisted by: Zoe Perry (Translation)
• Publisher: New Directions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.06.2021, delayed
• EAN: 9780811230919
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-3091-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies