Geovani Martins

Broschiertes Buch

Via Ápia

Beschreibung

"The first novel from one of Brazil's most critically lauded young literary talents, Via âApia follows five friends over the course of a turbulent year in Rocinha, the largest favela in Latin America. Innovative, raucous, and soul-stirring, no other novel will show you Rio de Janeiro quite like th"--

Autor

Geovani Martins was born in 1991 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the author of The Sun on My Head, named one of the Best Brazilian Books of the Century by Folha de São Paulo. He grew up with his mother in the Rio neighborhood of Vidigal. He supported his writing by working as a sandwich- board man and selling drinks on the beach, and was discovered during creative writing workshops at FLUP, the literary festival of the Rio favelas. Via Ápia is his first novel. Julia Sanches translates works from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. Her translations include Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández, for which she won a PEN/Heim Award, as well as works by Noemi Jaffe, Daniel Galera, and Geovani Martins. She is a founding member of the Cedilla & Co. translators' collective, and she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 135mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780374612986
• ISBN-10: 0374612986
• Artikelnr.: 71956596