Daniel Galera, trans. from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin. Penguin Press, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59420-5743
Brazilian writer Galera’s novel follows a young man in a beautiful but impoverished coastal town as he tries to uncover the details behind his grandfather’s death. Still reeling from a complicated breakup, the unnamed protagonist visits his ailing...
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Daniel Galera, trans. from the Portuguese by Julia Sanches. Penguin, $16 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-735-22479-7
Brazilian writer Galera’s thoughtful, bittersweet novel (after Blood-Drenched Beard) tackles the ephemeral nature of friendship. Emiliano, 39, struggles to pay the rent on his São Paulo apartment and to finish his doctorate. He’s lost touch with a...
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Daniel Galera, trans. from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin. Penguin Press, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59420-548-4
A strikingly potent coming-of-age story set mostly on the streets of Esplanada, a rapidly changing area in northeast Brazil in the early 1990s, Galera’s novel moves seamlessly between past and present to deliver a moving portrait of a man haunted by
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