The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
$29.12
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2024
Summary
From bestselling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a masterful thriller that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humorous and harrowing.
To escape an overprotective family and an abusive partner, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about an epidemic of violence against women that seems beyond comprehension.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911648758 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1911648756 |
| Author: | Patrícia Melo, Sophie Lewis |
| Publisher: | The Indigo Press |
| Imprint: | The Indigo Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 130mm x 196mm |
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Patrícia Melo
Patrícia Melo was born in 1962 and is a highly regarded novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. She has been awarded a number of internationally renowned prizes, including the Jabuti Prize 2001, the German LiBeraturpreis 2013, and the German Crime Award 1998 and 2014. She was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Time Magazine included her among the Fifty Latin American Leaders of the New Millennium.
Sophie Lewis is a London-based translator and editor working from Portuguese and French. Her translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She was joint winner of the 2022 French-American Foundation prize for non-fiction translation for her translation of Nastassja Martin’s book In the Eye of the Wild.
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