Crow Blue
1st Edition
Published on 10. October 2013
288 pages
978-1-4088-3831-0 (ISBN)
Description
I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn't mine. in a city that wasn't mine, in a country that wasn't mine, with a one-man family that, in spite of the intersections and intentions (all very good), wasn't mine.
When her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Vanja is left with no family and no sense of who she is, where she belongs, and what she should do. Determined to find her biological father to fill the void that has so suddenly appeared in her life, Vanja decides to leave Rio de Janeiro to live in Colorado with her stepfather, a former guerrilla notorious for his violent past. From there she goes in search of her biological father, tracing her mother's footsteps and gradually discovering the truth about herself.
Rendered in lyrical and passionate prose, Crow Blue is a literary road trip through Brazil and America, and through dark decades of family and political history.
When her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Vanja is left with no family and no sense of who she is, where she belongs, and what she should do. Determined to find her biological father to fill the void that has so suddenly appeared in her life, Vanja decides to leave Rio de Janeiro to live in Colorado with her stepfather, a former guerrilla notorious for his violent past. From there she goes in search of her biological father, tracing her mother's footsteps and gradually discovering the truth about herself.
Rendered in lyrical and passionate prose, Crow Blue is a literary road trip through Brazil and America, and through dark decades of family and political history.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3831-0 (9781408838310)
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Brazilian author Adriana Lisboa was born in Rio de Janeiro. She has published ten books, among which five novels, a collection of short stories and prose poetry, and books for children. Her work has been translated in several countries, including France, Mexico, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Adriana Lisboa lived in France - where she performed as a Brazilian jazz singer - and currently resides in the United States, in Colorado.
www.adrianalisboa.com.br/en/
www.facebook.com/lisboa.adriana
Adriana Lisboa lived in France - where she performed as a Brazilian jazz singer - and currently resides in the United States, in Colorado.
www.adrianalisboa.com.br/en/
www.facebook.com/lisboa.adriana
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Quotation
- Contents
- Periplaneta americana
- Crotalus atrox
- Behind the headlands is a bay
- Ursus arctos horribilis
- Fish
- May I pet your dog?
- Man's wolf
- Corvus corax, Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Las Animas
- Camino Sin Nombre
- Redondo Road
- Anaconda
- Vista del Mundo
- Canis latrans
- Jay Street
- Thank You
- A Note on the Translator
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright Page
