Black Waltz_Melo
2006 Nominated

Black Waltz

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Jealousy – overpowering, beyond the reach of reason, Othello-like – is the focus of this latest work by one of Brazil’s most acclaimed writers. A successful and renowned conductor of a major symphony orchestra in São Paulo is married to a beautiful and talented violinist, close to thirty years his junior. But his happiness is undermined by two fears: that he will never wholly share her life because, unlike her, he is not Jewish; and that she is unfaithful to him. He is haunted by a voice that gnaws at his trust, his love, and, ultimately, his sanity.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Patrícia
Melo

The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of urban authors that emerged in Brazil in the 1990s. Her crime novels, informed by sex and violence and set in the favelas, Brazil’s urban slums, are especially acclaimed. She researches her stories by interviewing prison inmates and people who live in the slums.
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of urban authors that emerged in Brazil in the 1990s. Her crime novels, informed by sex and violence and set in the favelas, Brazil’s urban slums, are especially acclaimed. She researches her stories by interviewing prison inmates and people who live in the slums.

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Clifford
E. Landers

Clifford E. Landers has translated from Portuguese almost forty novels and more than one hundred shorter works of fiction. A professor emeritus at New Jersey City University, he lives with his wife Vasda Bonafini Landers in Naples, Florida.

Clifford E. Landers has translated from Portuguese almost forty novels and more than one hundred shorter works of fiction. A professor emeritus at New Jersey City University, he lives with his wife Vasda Bonafini Landers in Naples, Florida.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Brazil
Original Language
Portugese
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Translator
Clifford E. Landers

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