Description: The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer, James Young The gripping English debut of the famous and hugely talented Brazilian writer Victor Heringer, who died tragically young. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ALTA FIRST TRANSLATION PRIZE In the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, one summer in the 1970s, a family—a husband and wife, their daughter, and their crippled teenage son Camilo—take in an orphan named Cosme. The boys unexpectedly fall in love, but an act of violence shatters their intimate world and changes their lives forever. Decades later, when Camilo returns to his hometown, he is haunted by his first love and the long shadow of Brazils military dictatorship. At once an incisive and unforgiving study of Brazilian society and a fluid, queer coming-of-age story, Victor Heringers exhilarating and moving novel is worthy of Machado de Assis. Author Biography The writer and multimedia artist Victor Heringer was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1988. His debut novel Glória was awarded the 2013 Prêmio Jabuti. The Love of Singular Men was published by Companhia das Letras in 2016, and was shortlisted for the São Paulo Prize for Literature, the Rio Prize for Literature, and the Oceanos Prize. Tragically, Heringer took his own life in 2018. James Young is a writer, translator, and editor from Belfast, Ireland. Review "When you read something genuinely new its hard to describe it - you end up settling for comparisons - and The Love of Singular Men is truly a singular novel. Its ingenious like Cortazar or Nabokov, elliptical like Grace Paley, funny like Donald Barthelme. Upon finishing it you want to immediately meet the young man who wrote it, shake him vigorously by the hand and congratulate him on the beginning of a brilliant career. But Victor Heringer is gone. He left this beautiful book behind. " -- Zadie Smith"One of the best novels in recent years." -- Asymptote"Heringer had little time to live, but he marked an entire generation of writers and readers. " -- O Globo"The brief, precise scenes – incorporating photos, lists and handwritten passages – enable Heringer to cover a great deal in a short space and make a potentially gloomy story into a multilayered celebration of life. That the author died in 2018, aged 29, is a loss to international literature." -- John Self - The Guardian"Heringer once said that he loved the serendipity of creation, like exploring a mountain and discovering new places to twist your ankle. His commitment to heterodoxy, singularity and incongruity made him an artist of the loose end. He killed himself aged twenty nine, when he was beginning to make his name. Perhaps the who knows why that whispers through all his work applies also to this." -- Lorna Scott Fox - New Left Review"The novels genius emerges from this condition of abject solitude: attempting to write his way out of a world in "perpetual moral hangover," Heringer finds beauty and humor even in tragedy." -- Adam Morris - The Baffler"Grand and strangely devastating." -- Charlie Lee - The New York Review of Books"Its the first book in a long time Ive wanted to read again the moment I finished it. … The books texture is marvelously diffuse and porous, allowing wild movements through (and juxtapositions of) time…I cant think of many pages in books Ive read in recent years that are such pure demonstrations of virtuosity." -- Garth Greenwell"Heringers writing is a braid of the tirelessly hilarious and the deadly serious." -- Tim Pfaff - The Bay Area Reporter Details ISBN0811237478 Author James Young Pages 144 Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation Year 2023 Translator James Young ISBN-13 9780811237475 Format Paperback Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-09-04 NZ Release Date 2023-09-04 UK Release Date 2023-09-04 Place of Publication New York Language English ISBN-10 0811237478 Audience General DEWEY 869.35 Publication Date 2023-09-22 US Release Date 2023-09-22 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:144671204;
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