Vista Chinesa

Vista Chinesa
Tatiana Salem Levy
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Paperback
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2 Aug 2022 AU
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9781922585288
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Inspired by a real event, this is the story of a woman and a city that were violated. It is 2014. There is euphoria in Brazil, especially in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The World Cup is about to take place, and the 2016 Olympics are in sight. It is a time of hope and of frenzied construction. Jolia is a partner with an architecture firm that is planning projects for the future Vila Olimpica. During a break from one of these meetings at the town hall, Jolia goes for a run in Alto da Boa Vista. Suddenly, someone puts a revolver to her head, takes her to a secluded spot, and rapes her. Left abandoned in the woods, she drags herself home, where her boyfriend and some family members wait for her. Vista Chinesa brings light and shadow to a city whose stunning beauty cannot conceal the most serious human and political problems. This is a novel that turns a tragic, real chapter in the story of a woman into great literature. ' An impressive power, which takes us by storm in the first pages . . . as if the book were the forest itself, to accompany with extreme distress, with half-closed eyes, the maximum harshness. ' -Julian Fuks, Brazilian writer and literary critic' And that is what Vista Chinesa does- surviving a rape is not a shame, but a victory. ' -Antonia Pellegrino, award-winning writer and screenwriter
Tatiana Salem Levy (Author) Tatiana Salem Levy is a writer, essayist, and researcher at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her first novel, The House in Smyrna (also published by Scribe and translated by Alison Entrekin), won Brazil' s most generous literary award - the S o Paulo Prize for Literature - for a debut work. She lives in Lisbon, and is a columnist for the newspaper Valor Economico. Alison Entrekin (Translator) Australian translator Alison Entrekin has translated over forty books from the Portuguese, including the classics City of God by Paulo Lins, Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, and My Sweet Orange Tree by Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos. In 2019 she was awarded the New South Wales Premier' s Translation Prize and PEN medallion for the body of her work. Other honours include an American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship in 2002 and shortlistings for the 2004 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the 2012 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the 2013 PEN America Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation privately, and occasionally writes about translation (in Portuguese) at- https-//www. revistapessoa. com
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781922585288
Published: 2 Aug 2022
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Scribe Publications
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112

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