Furniture for an escape in March
by Marana Borges
Description
This unique, powerful, gloomy and yet beautifully written debut novel tells a story of violence.
Taking the objects of a house as a starting point – spools, a broken keyboard, hummingbird drinking fountain –, the female narrator reconstructs the architecture full of cracks in her own story: an absent father, a dominating mother and a brother for whom she feels an ambiguous love. In this experimental narrative, the author creates a “poem-novel”, as she calls it, to gradually unravel what cannot be named: a rape once committed at home, covered up and silenced by the mother. The result is a lyrical, sometimes visceral portrait of a childhood caught between love, guilt and shame, full of surprising metaphors, in a language sometimes evocative of Marguerite Duras’ work. With this novel, Marana Borges proves to have a distinguished voice impossible to be mistaken.
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Author Biography
Marana Borges is a journalist and literary critic graduated from the University of São Paulo and from the University of Lisbon. She has worked for major media outlets and research centers in Brazil, Cape Verde, Spain, Portugal and France, and is a regular contributor to the magazines Quatro Cinco Um (Brazil) and Forma de Vida (Portugal). She won the prestigious Minas Gerais Literature Prize and was selected amongst 800 applicants for the literary creation grant from the National Library Foundation in Brazil.
Editora Dublinense Ltda.
Dublinense is a Brazilian indie press founded in 2009. Since our early days, our main focus was to take the risk discovering and presenting new interesting voices in Brazilian Literary Fiction. Since then, our titles have been recognized with the most prestigious literary awards in the country. We are always looking for good literature that can start interesting conversations about relevant contemporary subjects.
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- Publisher/Imprint Dublinense / Não Editora
- Publication Date May 2021
- Orginal LanguagePortuguese
- Publication Country or regionBrazil
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleMobiliário para uma fuga em março
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