A01=Ivan Angelo
Author_Ivan Angelo
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Product details
- ISBN 9781564782908
- Weight: 267g
- Dimensions: 164 x 214mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jul 2003
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the early morning of March 31, 1970 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the annual birthday celebration of a prominent and wealthy young artist is taking place; and a train docked in Plaza Station filled with starving, drought-stricken migrant workers seeking relief gets turned away by the authorities, sparking a riot. From these seemingly unrelated events, Ivan Angelo's remarkable debut novel connects and implicates the lives of a complex of characters spanning three decades of tumultuous social and political history in twentieth-century Brazil. But with the central event - the celebration - missing, the reader is thrust into the middle of an intricate puzzle, left to construct the story from the evidence that accrues in a range of comic, unnverving, misleading and tragic episodes.
Thomas Colchie is an acclaimed translator, editor, and literary agent for international authors. He is the editor of "A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes," He has written for the "Village Voice" and "The Washington Post," His translations include Manuel Puig's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and (with Elizabeth Bishop, Gregory Rabassa, and Mark Strand) Carlos Drummond de Andrade's "Travelling in the Family,"
