Description
Read an excerpt from Sevastopol in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/sevastopol
About the Author
EMILIO FRAIA was born in Sao Paulo in 1982. Sevastopol, his third book, was one of the winners of the Biblioteca Nacional Prize and a finalist for the Oceanos Prize and Jabuti Prize. One of Granta's Best Young Brazilian Writers, Fraia has been awarded a Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship and is currently an editor at Companhia das Letras. ZOE PERRY's translations of contemporary Portuguese-language writers have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and Words Without Borders. She is a founding member of the London-based translators' collective the Starling Bureau.
Reviews
"A truly beautiful book that is hard to describe without using words like precision, subtlety and, mostly, wisdom." - Alejandro Zambra; "Like the writers I most admire, Fraia sets for himself the hardest and most respectable task a writer can face: unravelling the mystery without revealing the secret." - Javier Montes; "Accurate language, powerful imagination." - Sergio Sant'Anna; "A literary jewel." - Fernanda Torres; "Fraia captures a very specific sense of what it is like to live in Sao Paulo in the current political climate, but he also captures something much more universal: what it is like to live in a culture from which you feel entirely disconnected and, within that culture, to try to make art of any kind. I think that theme can speak to readers in any country." - Deborah Treisman
Book Information
ISBN 9781999992835
Author Emilio Fraia
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Lolli Editions
Publisher Lolli Editions
Weight(grams) 190g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 14mm