Awards
- "Runner-up for The Premio Jabuti (the ""Tortoise Prize"") 2016"
- Runner-up for The Premio Jabuti (the Tortoise Prize ) 2016
- Runner-up for The Premio Jabuti (the ""Tortoise Prize"") 2016
- Short-listed for The Premio Machado de Assis (the Machado de Assis Prize) 2016
- Winner of Premio Sesc de Literatura 2015
Overview
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 sertão. 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Sheyla Smanioto ,
Sophie Lewis ,
Laura Garmeson
Publisher: UEA Publishing Project
Imprint: UEA Publishing Project
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.334kg
ISBN: 9781913861131
ISBN 10: 1913861139
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 31 July 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'Full of originality and lyricism ... it's a punch to the stomach, in the best sense. At times dark, at times vibrating with hope in every line.' Larissa Bezerra, O Diário de Maringá 'The situation, the characters and the reality depicted in Out of Earth flow at one remove from the usual run of literature in our times. Her writing shows a rare audacity.' Rodrigo Casarin, Suplemento Pernambuco
Author Information
Sheyla Smanioto was born in 1990 into a working-class family in Diadema, São 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 Jabutí prizes, as well as being shortlisted for the São 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.
