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Out of Earth

★★★★★
★★★★★

English

By (author): Sheyla Smanioto

Translated by: Laura Garmeson, Sophie Lewis

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. This is a ground-breaking feminist work, a bracing modernist fable, of sorts, formally reminiscent of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 375g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Jul 2023
  • Publisher: UEA Publishing Project
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781913861131

About Sheyla Smanioto

Sheyla Smanioto was born in 1990 into a working-class family in Diadema Sao Paulo state which was then the most violent town in Brazil. In 2017 she was selected by Forbes magazine as one of the people under 30 making a difference in Brazil. With her two published novels Desesterro (2015 appearing here as Out of Earth) and Meu corpo ainda quente (2020) she won the SESC Biblioteca Nacional and Jabuti prizes as well as being shortlisted for the Sao Paulo literature prize. Sophie Lewis is a translator and an editor. Working from Portuguese and French she has translated numerous authors and she co-founded the Shadow Heroes translation workshops enterprise - www.shadowheroes.org. Sophie's translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes and longlisted for the International Booker Prize.

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