Out of Earth

The story follows four generations of female characters as they navigate the hardships of life in the parched landscape of the Brazilian sertäao. Male figures are peripheral, but are also revealed as the origin of much of the suffering in the novel, generating for the women a kind of exile not only in relation to the land but to their sense of self.

Info autore

Sheyla Smanioto was born in 1990 into a working-class family in Diadema, São Paulo state, which was then the most violent town in Brazil. In 2017 she was selected by Forbes magazine as one of the people under 30 making a difference in Brazil. With her two published novels, Desesterro (2015, appearing here in English as Out of Earth) and Meu corpo ainda quente (2020), she won the SESC, Biblioteca Nacional and Jabutí prizes, as well as being shortlisted for the São Paulo literature prize. She has twice received grants from Itaú Cultural fund to assist her writing

Riassunto

First translation into English of Desesterro, the multiple prize-winning novel by Sheyla Smanioto first published in Brazil, 2015

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sheyla Smanioto
• Con la collaborazione di: Laura Garmeson (Traduzione), Sophie Lewis (Traduzione)
• Editore: Boiler House Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2023
• EAN: 9781913861131
• ISBN: 978-1-913861-13-1
• Pagine: 338
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Peso: 533 g
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi