Overview
From one of Granta's Best Young Brazilian Novelists comes a startling and powerful story about returning to one's origins in order to move forward. From one of Granta's Best Young Brazilian Novelists comes a startling and powerful story about returning to one's origins in order to move forward. In Rio de Janeiro, a woman suffering from a mysterious illness, which is eroding her body and mind, decides to accept a challenge from her grandfather- to take the key to the house where he grew up - in the Turkish city of Smyrna - and try to open the door. As she embarks on this pilgrimage, she begins to write of her progress. This writing soon becomes an exploration of her family's legacy of displacement in Europe, told in several narrative strands. Sifting through family stories - her grandfather's migration from Turkey to Brazil, her parents' exile in Portugal under the Brazilian military dictatorship, her mother's death, and her own love affair with a violent man - she traces her family's history in a journey to make sense of the past and to understand her place in it. With an epic sweep of time and place - traversing Brazil, Turkey, and Portugal - this is a profoundly moving portrait of a young woman finding her way back into life. Spare, heartfelt, and evocative, The House in Smyrna is an unforgettable story from one of the most accomplished and original new voices in Brazil. Praise for Tatiana Salem Levy 'Wonderful . . . deceptively simple prose carrying a great power of sorrow and, interestingly, hope.' Ian McEwan 'Levy's writing is a joy.' A. L. Kennedy 'With Tatiana Salem Levy, everything comes directly from the heart- pain, love, desire, death. A breathtaking novel.' La Liberte
Full Product Details
Author: Tatiana Salem Levy
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Imprint: Scribe Publications
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 20.10cm
Weight: 0.216kg
ISBN: 9781925106411
ISBN 10: 1925106411
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 28 January 2015
Audience:
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Praise for Tatiana Salem Levy: 'Wonderful ...deceptively simple prose carrying a great power of sorrow and, interestingly, hope.' - Ian McEwan 'Levy's writing is a joy.' - A. L. Kennedy 'With Tatiana Salem Levy, everything comes directly from the heart: pain, love, desire, death. A breathtaking novel.' - La Liberte
Author Information
Tatiana Salem Levy is a writer, essayist, and researcher at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her first novel, The House in Smyrna (also published by Scribe and translated by Alison Entrekin), won Brazil's most generous literary award - the S o Paulo Prize for Literature - for a debut work. She lives in Lisbon, and is a columnist for the newspaper Valor Economico.
