Name: Harmada
SKU: 53049110
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Author: JoÃO Gilberto Noll

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Author

JoÃO Gilberto Noll

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ISBN13

9781949641059

Synopsis "Harmada"

Noll is a hero of Brazilian literature who deserves to be widely known in the English-speaking world and this fascinating shape-shifting novel is a wonderful introduction to his work. Jenny Offill, author of WeatherLike an Edenic Adam birthed from the clay, our narrator rises to his feet from the muckreborn, or something like that. Unbeknownst to him, hes on a desperate search for Harmada, the capital city of an unnamed nation and the land of his former glory. Told using Nolls characteristic fragmented logic and spirited prose, Harmada traces the life of this nameless man on a voyage that takes him from aimless outcast to revered director of avant-garde theater, from asylum patient to father to God, conjuring along the way essential questions about the power of art and storytelling, the vanity of glory, and the meaning of freedom.A mythic tale of art and displacement nimbly translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto, Harmada serves as yet another reminder of João Gilberto Nolls sublime literary power: generous in its mystery; earthbound in its essential urges; and entirely unpredictable.