The Words that Remain
ABOUT
THE BOOK
A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has been unable to read. Exploring Brazil’s little-known hinterland as well its urban haunts, this is a sweeping novel of repression, violence, and shame, along with survival, endurance, and the ultimate triumph of an unforgettable figure on society’s margins. The Words That Remain explores the universal power of the written word and language, and how they affect all our relationships.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Bruna
Dantas Lobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato is a fiction writer and award-winning translator. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is published by Grove Atlantic in the US, and by Companhia das Letras/PRH in Brazil (in her own translation into Portuguese).
Bruna Dantas Lobato is a fiction writer and award-winning translator. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is published by Grove Atlantic in the US, and by Companhia das Letras/PRH in Brazil (in her own translation into Portuguese).
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
The words that remain is a tender and sad love story. Extremely poetic written, it explores language and how it affects human relations. The author manages to play with oral and written languages, causing a role amount of sensations throughout the book.