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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prémio Camões | 2016 | Winner |
About This Book
A lyrical, mythological novel about a young man who flees his family's patriarchal farm and the violent consequences that follow, written in a dense, incantatory Portuguese drawing on the Bible and classical mythology.
About the Author
Raduan Nassar is a Brazilian novelist, short story writer, and farmer born in 1935 in Pindorama, São Paulo, to Lebanese immigrant parents. He is one of the most celebrated and admired writers in Brazilian literature, known for a relatively small but extraordinarily concentrated and beautiful body of work. He has spent much of his life farming in the interior of São Paulo state. Read more →
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