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The Words That Remain
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, the handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labour thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo...
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The Words That Remain
A potent novel about scars left by poverty, illiteracy, and homophobia, opening in Brazil's rural hinterland and moving to its metropolitan center.
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, the handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labour thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read. As young men, he and Cícero fell in love, only to have Raimundo's father brutally beat him when he discovered their affair.
Even after Raimundo succeeds in making a life for himself in the big city, he continues to be haunted by this secret missive full of longing from the distant past. Now at age seventy-one, he at last acquires a true education and the ability to access the letter.
Exploring Brazil's little-known hinterland as well as its urban haunts, this is a sweeping novel of repression, violence, and shame, along with their flip sides: survival, endurance, and the ultimate triumph of an unforgettable figure on society's margins. The Words That Remain explores the universal power of the written word and language, and how they affect all our relationships.
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ISBN: 9781954404120
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 July 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: New Vessel Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 134.0mm
Height: 204.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
St nio Gardel was born in 1980 in the rural northeast of Brazil. The Words That Remain is his first novel and won the National Book Award for Translation. Bruna Dantas Lobato is a Brazilian writer and literary translator who lives in St. Louis. Her translation of The Words That Remain by St nio Gardel won the National Book Award.
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