{"product_id":"the-simple-art-of-killing-a-woman-paperback","title":"The Simple Art of Killing a Woman - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrícia Melo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom best-selling Brazilian novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression--by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Simple Art of Killing a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e vividly conjures the epidemic of femicide in Brazil, the power women can hold in the face of overwhelming male violence, the resilience of community despite state-sponsored degradation, and the potential of the jungle to save us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo escape her newly aggressive lover, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about the rampant attacks on the region's women, which have grown so commonplace that the cases quickly fill her large notebook. What she finds in the jungle is not only persistent racism, patriarchy, and deforestation, but a deep longing for answers to her enigmatic past. Through the ritual use of ayahuasca, she meets a chorus of \u003cem\u003eIcamiabas\u003c\/em\u003e, warrior women bent on vengeance--and gradually, she recovers the details of her own mother's early death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Simple Art of Killing a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e resists categorization: it is a series of prose poems lamenting the real-life women murdered by so many men in Brazil; a personal search for history, truth, and belonging; and a modern, exacting, and sometimes fantastical take on very old problems that, despite our better selves, dog us the world over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrícia Melo\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1962 and is a highly regarded novelist, playwright and scriptwriter. She has been awarded a number of internationally renowned prizes, including the Jabuti Prize 2001, the German LiBeraturpreis 2013 and the German Crime Award 1998 and 2014; she was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Time Magazine included her among the Fifty Latin American Leaders of the New Millenium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/strong\u003e translates from the French and Portuguese. She has translated works by Stendhal, Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Emmanuelle Pagano, Jean-Luc Raharimanana, Sheyla Smanioto, and João Gilberto Noll, among others. Her translation of Emilie de Turckheim's novel \u003cem\u003eHéloïse is Bald\u003c\/em\u003e was commended for the 2016 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and her translation of Noémi Lefebvre's \u003cem\u003eBlue Self-Portrait\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the 2018 Republic of Consciousness Prize. In 2016 she launched Shadow Heroes, which designs and delivers workshops on translation for students at GCSE and above.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.19 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381680718002,"sku":"9781632063465","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/5e3f893f3f8677b1e397cc45fc691c6f.webp?v=1777818158","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-simple-art-of-killing-a-woman-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}