Violeta among the Stars

Zusatztext Quite extraordinary and a privilege to read . . . Devastating but immensely moving . . . Violeta among the Stars is related with rare eloquence Informationen zum Autor Dulce Maria Cardoso is a Portuguese writer, who spent her childhood in Luanda, Angola after her parents moved there when she was an infant. Her family returned to Portugal following the Angolan War of Independence in 1975. She studied law at the University of Lisbon and worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. Her first novel, Campo de Sangue, won the Grand Prize Acontece de Romance, Violeta among the Stars won the EU Prize for Literature and O Chão dos Pardais won the Portuguese Pen Club Award. Klappentext A beautiful, blistering life story told amid the wreckage of a car crash Zusammenfassung A beautiful, blistering life story told amid the wreckage of a car crash

Product details

• Authors: Dulce Maria Cardoso, Cardoso Dulce Maria
• Assisted by: Angel Gurria-Quintana (Translation), Gurria-Quintana Angel (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.05.2022
• EAN: 9781529415148
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1514-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Portugal, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Modern and contemporary fiction, HISTORY / Europe / Spain