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2007 Nominated

A Window in Copacabana

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. They were mediocre cops, and their deaths have a lot in common: a cold-blooded assassin, who leaves no trace and likes to fire at point-blank range, eliminated them.
Immediately the police world is thrown into turmoil. Who would risk running around the city killing cops, even unpopular ones? People involved in drug trafficking? Other policemen? Espinosa, chief of the 12th Precinct, doesn’t have much to go on. And when the body of a woman connected to one of the dead cops is found on the sidewalk below her apartment window, things get even more complicated, as a reputed “witness”-the wife of a high-ranking government official–becomes obsessed with the case, and with Espinosa.

Nothing is quite as it first appears as Espinosa finds himself in his old haunts of Leme and Copacabana, and in the all-too-familiar murky terrain of corruption, secret lives, greed, and fear.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Luiz
Alfredo Garcia-Roza

Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza is a bestselling novelist who lives in Rio de Janeiro. His Inspector Espinosa mysteries—The Silence of the RainDecember HeatSouthwesterly WindA Window in CopacabanaPursuit, and Blackout—have been translated into six languages and are available in paperback from Picador.

Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza is a bestselling novelist who lives in Rio de Janeiro. His Inspector Espinosa mysteries—The Silence of the RainDecember HeatSouthwesterly WindA Window in CopacabanaPursuit, and Blackout—have been translated into six languages and are available in paperback from Picador.

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Benjamin
Moser

Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. His work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence was recognized with Brazil’s State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. His most recent book, Sontag: Her Life, won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Utrecht, in the central Netherlands.

Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. His work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence was recognized with Brazil’s State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. His most recent book, Sontag: Her Life, won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Utrecht, in the central Netherlands.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Brazil
Original Language
Portuguese
Publisher
Henry Holt
Translator
Benjamin Moser

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