Um romance surpreendentemente atual e engenhoso sobre identidade, raça e sexualidade, vencedor do Man Booker Prize em 2019. Garota, mulher, outras é um verdadeiro marco da ficção britânica. O romance causou furor quando publicado: venceu o Man Booker Prize em 2019, foi aclamado por nomes como Barack Obama, Roxane Gay, Ali Smith e Tom Stoppard e incluído nas listas de melhores livros do ano por veículos como The Guardian, Time, The Washington Post e The New Yorker. A forma, por si só, não é nada convencional: trata-se de um gênero híbrido, composto de versos livres e sem pontos finais. O resultado é uma dicção singular e envolvente, que prende o leitor da primeira à última página. O pano de fundo dessas histórias é uma Londres dividida e hostil, logo após a votação do Brexit: um lugar onde as pessoas lutam para sobreviver, muitas vezes sem esperança, sem que as suas necessidades sejam atendidas e sem que sejam ouvidas. Nesse ambiente opressor, as vozes de Garota, mulher, outras formam um coro e levantam reflexões poderosas sobre o machismo, o racismo e a estrutura da sociedade. "Brilhante, inventivo." - Sunday Times "O livro mais envolvente que li o ano todo. (...) Este romance é uma aula sobre contar histórias. Absolutamente inesquecível." - Roxane Gay "Garota, mulher, outras mudou meu jeito de pensar." - Tom Stoppard "Bernardine Evaristo pode tirar qualquer história de qualquer tempo e transformá-la em algo vibrante, com vida." - Ali Smith
Garota, mulher, outras -
Bernardine Evaristo
Companhia das Letras
2020
496 páginas
16h 32m
ISBN-13: 9788535933819
Português Brasileiro
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Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo was born in London to an English mother and Nigerian father. The fourth of eight siblings, she was raised in Woolwich, South London, and originally trained as an actress and worked in theatre. She is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels-in-verse: Lara (1997), which traces the roots of a mixed-race English-Nigerian-Brazilian-Irish family over 150 years, three continents and seven generations; and The Emperor's Babe (2001), the ground-breaking tragi-comic story of Zuleika, a girl of Sudanese parents, who grows up in Roman London 1800 years ago and who has an affair with the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus. Her novel-with-verse, Soul Tourists (2005), is about a car journey across Europe featuring a mismatched couple, Stanley and Jessie, with appearances en route from ghosts of colour from European history such as Pushkin, Alessandro de Medici and Mary Seacole. Her novel Blonde Roots was published in 2008, and in 2010, she wrote the Quick Reads novella, Hello Mum. Mr Loverman (2014), is about a 74 year old Caribbean London man who is closet homosexual. Girl, Woman, Other (2019) - Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019 - tells the stories of a loosely connected group of people - mostly black women in complex mother-daughter relationships - across 120 years of British history, from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day. Evaristo has also written for theatre, radio, print media and for a multi-media collaboration Cityscapes with saxophonist Andy Sheppard and pianist Joanna MacGregor for the City of London Festival in 2003. She has undertaken over 50 international writers' tours since 1997, ranging from one-night readings to three-month teaching residencies. She has been a Visiting Professor at Barnard College/Columbia University in New York, Writer-in-Residence at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, and Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia. She also represented Britain, with the novelist Glenn Patterson, on Literaturexpress Europa 2000, which took 105 European writers through 11 European countries over six weeks by train, travelling from Portugal to Berlin via Belgium, the Baltics and Russia. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, and was awarded an MBE in 2009. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London.
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