Bøker i Brazilian Literature in Translation Series-serien

In this charming, tragicomic tale of compromised environmentalism, Moacyr Scliar employs his signature humour and talent for crisp storytelling while weaving together a playfully serious parable of environmentalist ideals that clash with the realities of local politics, global consumer culture, and competing visions of authentic nature.

Inspired by his own family's struggles, as well as the broader sociopolitical and economic forces that shaped Brazil in the 1970s, Luiz Ruffato's epistolary novel, Unremembering Me, traces the story of the narrator's older brother, Celio, a young factory hand from Cataguases, Minas Gerais.

Based on the author's own experiences of life, exile, and return under the dictatorship that gripped Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s, this novel follows Lena, a journalist, as she resists political repression, and flees to Paris. Originally published in 1988, Ana Maria Machado's novel captures one of the darkest periods in recent Brazilian history.

Written within the literary conventions of the Romantic movement and published decades before other Brazilian abolitionist novels, Ursula (1859) offers a sensitive and nuanced portrayal of enslaved African and Afro-Brazilian characters.