Nowhere People: Winner of the Machado de Assis Prize - Brossura

Scott, Paulo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 190827638X ISBN 13: 9781908276384

Casa editrice: And Other Stories, 2014

Riassunto

Driving home, law student Paulo passes a figure at the side of the road. The indigenous girl stands in the heavy rain, as if waiting for something. Paulo gives her a lift to her family&;s roadside camp.

Through sudden shifts in the characters&; lives, this novel takes in the whole story: telling of love, loss and family, it spans the worlds of São Paulo&;s rich kids and dispossessed Guarani Indians along Brazil&;s highways. One man escapes into an immigrant squatter&;s life in London, while another&;s performance activism leads to unexpected fame on Youtube.

Written from the gut, Nowhere People is a raw and passionate classic in the making about our need for a home. It won the 2012 Machado de Assis Prize, awarded by the Brazilian National Library, and was shortlisted for a number of other major Brazilian prizes, including the Portugal Telecom, the Jabuti, the São Paulo Literature and Bravo! prizes.

Paulo Scott

was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1966 and grew up in a working class area. At university, Scott was an active member of the student political movement and he took part in Brazil's re-democratization process. He also translates from English.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Paulo Scott was born in 1966 in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, and grew up in a working-class neighbourhood. At university, Scott was an active member of the student political movement and was also involved in Brazil&;s re-democratisation process.

For ten years he taught law at university in Porto Alegre. He has now published four books of fiction and four of poetry. He also translates from English. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 2008 to focus on writing full-time.

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with some forty books to his name. His translations (from Spanish, Portuguese and French) include fiction from Europe, Africa and the Americas, and non-fiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. His translation of José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons won him the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: And Other Stories
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 190827638X
• ISBN 13: 9781908276384
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 308
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile