Out of Earth
Translated from Portuguese by Laura Garmeson & Sophie Lewis.
- £14.99
- Available
- Paperback published on 31/07/2023
- Page count: 338 pages
- ISBN: 9781913861131
Quick take
Winner of the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Outstanding First Novel - This is a ground-breaking feminist work, a bracing modernist fable, of sorts, formally reminiscent of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.
Synopsis
This remarkable Brazilian novel has been garlanded with multiple awards and accolades since its initial publication, as Desesterro: the prestigious Sesc Prize for Literature, the Machado de Assis award and the Jabuti award. The story follows four generations of female characters as they navigate the hardships of life in the parched landscape of the Brazilian sertao. Male figures are peripheral, but are also revealed as the origin of much of the suffering in the novel, generating for the women a kind of exile not only in relation to the land but to their sense of self.
About the author
Sheyla Smanioto was born in Diadema, Brazil in 1990. She earned her master’s in literary theory and history at the University of Campinas. She now lives in São Paulo.
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