
Enigmas of Spring
Joao Almino(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
Will be published approx. on 14. April 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-62897-131-6 (ISBN)
Description
Majnun lives his life online in his grandparents' well-appointed home in the Brazilian capital. No school, no work-just bored in Brasilia. After falling in love with a married woman, however, he flees to Madrid with friends, intent on, well ... something. Writing a historical novel about medieval Spain? Or perhaps converting to Islam and heading to North Africa? As Majnun floats through the crowds of Catholics, through encounters with legitimate medievalists, through romances, friendships, mosques, and palaces, his vague interests threaten to boil over into violent, even deadly action.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62897-131-6 (9781628971316)
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Persons
Joao Almino is the author of six novels, of which The Five Seasons of Love, The Book of Emotion, and Free City are also available in English translation. He has taught at Berkeley, Stanford, the Autonomous National University of Mexico, and the University of Brasilia.
Rhett McNeil has translated work by Machado de Assis, Antonio Lobo Antunes, and Goncalo M. Tavares.
Rhett McNeil has translated work by Machado de Assis, Antonio Lobo Antunes, and Goncalo M. Tavares.