Late Summer

A Novel

Late Summer
Julia Sanches, Luiz Ruffato
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Paperback
h203 x 133mm - 224pg
6 Jul 2021 US
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9781635420203
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From one of Brazil' s most important living writers, a powerful reflection on the effects of isolation and feelings of inadequacy in our time. Sick and abandoned by his wife and son, Oseias decides to go back to his hometown after twenty years away. During this time apart, he has heard about his family only through sporadic phone calls from his younger sister, Isabela. The shadow of the suicide of their sister Ligia, when she was fifteen, lingers over Oseias as he tries to reestablish contact with his siblings. Each of them is absorbed in their own world- Rosana and her obsession with fitness; Isabela and her struggle to survive; Jo o Locio and his isolation. All of them are branded by loneliness, but most of all Oseias, who, misunderstood by his family members and old acquaintances, decides to put an end to his journey. Late Summer can be read as both the realistic story of a displaced man tortured by his unsuccessful attempt to redeem his past, and as a portrait of contemporary society, in which social classes have ruptured any form of dialogue between them, and people have become rogue planets whose paths cross occasionally, risking mutual destruction.
Praise for There Were Many Horses: "Groundbreaking. . . a singular book that embodies present-day Brazil like nothing else. . . The book draws the reader in from all sides. " -Insight "Ruffato writes about a single day by way of sixty-eight vignettes. . . an absolute joy to read even though their subject matter is frequently disturbing. . . What is wonderfully memorable is the frantic metropolitan atmosphere created and the sense almost of having genuinely visited Sao Paulo. " -Literary Flits
Luiz Ruffato was born in Cataguases, a small industrial city in southeastern Brazil. The grandson of immigrants who fled northern Italy, Ruffato worked throughout his youth as a bar clerk, textile worker, street book vendor, and turner to supplement the income of his parents, a popcorn vendor and a laundress. He earned a journalism degree from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, and later settled in S o Paulo. He is the author of eight novels as well as short-story collections, poetry, and essays. In addition to numerous Brazilian literary prizes, his works have received the Premio Casa de las Americas (Cuba) and the Hermann Hesse Literaturpreis (Germany), and have been published in thirteen countries. Since 2003 Ruffato has worked exclusively as a writer. Julia Sanches translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. She has translated works by Susana Moreira Marques, Daniel Galera, Claudia Hernandez, and Geovani Martins, among others, and is a founding member of Cedilla & Co.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781635420203
Published: 6 Jul 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Publisher: Other Press LLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 133mm
Pages: 224

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