
An Atavic Fear of Hailstorms
Joao Reis(Author)
Long Day Press
Published on 18. July 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
66 pages
978-1-950987-29-0 (ISBN)
Description
After a car crash lands him in the hospital, while reluctantly sharing beers with an acquaintance, a man obsesses about the decisions that brought him there, including the fate of a woman he was driving to see.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 102 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
54 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-950987-29-0 (9781950987290)
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João Reis born in 1985, is a Portuguese writer and literary translator. His books are published in Portugal, the USA, Brazil, Serbia, and Georgia. The Translator's Bride was his first work to be translated into English, and his novel Bedraggling Grandma with Russian Snow was shortlisted for the Fernando Namora Literary Prize and was longlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award. He's also the author of A Devastação do Silêncio (longlisted for Prémio Oceanos 2019), Quando Servi Gil Vicente (shortlisted for Prémio Fernando Namora 2020), Se com Pétalas ou Ossos (2021), and Cadernos da Água (2022).