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Book Title
Moldy Strawberries : Stories
Publication Name
Moldy Strawberries
Title
Moldy Strawberries
Subtitle
Stories
Author
Caio Abreu
Translator
Bruna Dantas Lobato
Contributor
Bruna Dantas Lobato (Translated by)
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1953861202
EAN
9781953861207
ISBN
9781953861207
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Genre
Fiction
Release Date
14/06/2022
Release Year
2022
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.5in
Item Length
6.4in
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Lgbt / Gay
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7 Oz
Number of Pages
200 Pages

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Caio Fernando Abreu is one of those authors who is picked up by every generation... In these surreal and gripping stories about desire, tyranny, fear, and love, one of Brazil's greatest queer writers appears in English for the first time In 18 daring, scheming stories filled with tension and intimacy, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the 80s. Tenderly suspended between fear and longing, Abreu's characters grasp for connection: A man speckled with Carnival glitter crosses a crowded dance floor and seeks the warmth and beauty of another body. A budding office friendship between two young men turns into a surprising love, "a strange and secret harmony." One man desires another but fears a clumsy word or gesture might tear their plot to pieces. Abreu writes the stories of people whose intimate lives are on the verge of imploding at all times. Even simple gestures--a salvaged cigarette, a knock on the door from the hazy downpour of a dream, a tight-lipped smile--are precarious offerings. Junkies, failed revolutionaries, poets, and conflicted artists face threats at every turn. But, inwardly ferocious and secretly resilient, they heal. In these stories there is luminous memory and decay, and beauty on the horizon. Translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato, currently an Iowa Arts Fellow and MFA candidate in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa.

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Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
1953861202
ISBN-13
9781953861207
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24057272872

Product Key Features

Book Title
Moldy Strawberries : Stories
Author
Caio Abreu
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Lgbt / Gay
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
200 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
6.4in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pq9698.1.B68m6713
Reviews
"Abreu's prose shimmers and always surprises--each story is a small, bright gem. The fearless writing in this beautiful collection deserves a vast English-language readership." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "Caio Fernando Abreu's Moldy Strawberries introduces one of Brazil's most important and original prose writers to English language readers. Translated with expert nuance and brio by Bruna Dantas Lobato, Abreu's collection depicts the almost forgotten world of 1980s Brazil, a world shaped by military dictatorship, AIDS, and economic crisis, filtered through a rich and multilayered queer sensibility. You will want to add this startling collection to your bookshelf." - John Keene, author of Counternarratives and Annotations "Abreu's writing teems with the desperate and dispirited, beatific loners who are propelled by a gravitational hunger for some shred of authenticity or understanding, for intimate correspondence with another. There are monumental truths to be found in each of these stories, drifting amid the queasy weightlessness of oblivion and craving acknowledgement. Moldy Strawberries is an act of unshakeable compassion." - Justin Walls, Bookshop, "Abreu's prose shimmers and always surprises--each story is a small, bright gem. The fearless writing in this beautiful collection deserves a vast English-language readership." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "Caio Fernando Abreu's Moldy Strawberries introduces one of Brazil's most important and original prose writers to English language readers. Translated with expert nuance and brio by Bruna Dantas Lobato, Abreu's collection depicts the almost forgotten world of 1980s Brazil, a world shaped by military dictatorship, AIDS, and economic crisis, filtered through a rich and multilayered queer sensibility. You will want to add this startling collection to your bookshelf." - John Keene, author of Counternarratives and Annotations "Abreu's writing teems with the desperate and dispirited, beatific loners who are propelled by a gravitational hunger for some shred of authenticity or understanding, for intimate correspondence with another. There are monumental truths to be found in each of these stories, drifting amid the queasy weightlessness of oblivion and craving acknowledgement. Moldy Strawberries is an act of unshakeable compassion." - Justin Walls, Bookshop "Lending an almost painfully humane eye and ear to his characters, Caio Fernando Abreu constructs scenarios of staggering psychological depth from everyday gestures and occasions. Inevitably, devastatingly, readers are destined to meet themselves in his prismatic prose." -- Lucy Ives, author of Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World "Moldy Strawberries gives us an unforgettable portrait of politics and desire as these are written incrementally and achingly in the hearts of Brazilians. Bruna Dantas Lobato's graceful and rhythmically acute translation brings close the loss and longing in Caio Fernando Abreu's profound story sequence." --Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm "[Abreu's] writing is at times delirious, arresting and revolutionary, often using fragmentation and the language of dreams to describe the world around him . . . This luminous collection of stories shows him to be one of the most compelling writers of the continent." -- Morning Star, "Caio Fernando Abreu's Moldy Strawberries introduces one of Brazil's most important and original prose writers to English language readers. Translated with expert nuance and brio by Bruna Dantas Lobato, Abreu's collection depicts the almost forgotten world of 1980s Brazil, a world shaped by military dictatorship, AIDS, and economic crisis, filtered through a rich and multilayered queer sensibility. You will want to add this startling collection to your bookshelf." - John Keene, author of Counternarratives and Annotations "Abreu's writing teems with the desperate and dispirited, beatific loners who are propelled by a gravitational hunger for some shred of authenticity or understanding, for intimate correspondence with another. There are monumental truths to be found in each of these stories, drifting amid the queasy weightlessness of oblivion and craving acknowledgement. Moldy Strawberries is an act of unshakeable compassion." - Justin Walls, Bookshop
Lccn
2021-054887
Dewey Decimal
869.35
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23

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