{"title":"João Reis","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/files\/Joao.jpg?v=1767972797\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoão Reis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1985) is a Portuguese writer and a literary translator of Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic). He studied philosophy and has lived in Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Reis's work has been compared to that of Hamsun and Kafka, and represents a literary style unseen in contemporary Portuguese writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Devastation of Silence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, his third novel,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003elonglisted for Prémio Oceanos 2019.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-translators-bride","title":"The Translator's Bride","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAugust 20, 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003enovel | pb | 117 pgs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#b45f06\"\u003e978-1-940953-95-3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the start of \u003cem\u003eThe Translator's Bride\u003c\/em\u003e, the Translator's bride has left him. But if he can only find a way to publish a book, and buy a small house, maybe he can win her back . . . These are the obsessive thoughts that pervade the Translator's mind as he walks around an unnamed city full of idiots, trying to figure out how to put his life back together—his employers aren't paying him, he's trying to survive a woman's unwanted advances, and he's trying to make the best of his desperate living conditions—all while he struggles with his own mind and angry and psychotic ideas, filled with longing and melancholy. Darkly funny, filled with acidic observations and told with a frenetic page, \u003cem\u003eThe Translator's Bride \u003c\/em\u003eis an incredible ride—whether you're a translator or not!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Portuguese by the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoão Reis, born in 1985, is a Portuguese writer and a literary translator of Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic). He studied philosophy and has lived in Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Reis's work has already been compared to that of Hamsun and Kafka, and represents a literary style unseen in contemporary Portuguese writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for The Translator's Bride\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003eThe circuitous absorption of \u003cem\u003eThe Translator’s Bride\u003c\/em\u003e is sustained by its novella-like structure and dark, gleaming humor... [Its] language is beautiful, mordant, and tragic.\"—Meg Nola, \u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reis’s novel is both surprising and hilarious.\"—\u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"João Reis","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":13332307214380,"sku":"","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":31466510221427,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/9781940953953_FC.jpg?v=1578089085"},{"product_id":"the-devastation-of-silence","title":"The Devastation of Silence","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eNovember 1, 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 120 pgs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.0\" x 8.0\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #b45f06;\" color=\"#b45f06\"\u003e978-1-948830-63-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/tip-sheet\/article\/79827-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-april-22-2019.html\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/tip-sheet\/article\/79827-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-april-22-2019.html\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe nights were terrible, during the day we were occupied, but at night we got to thinking, picturing food, our houses, food again, painful memories from our childhoods—that abominable era—would mix with images of food and our torture would grow and grow, I recalled my impotence before the plate I was ordered to clean, the impossibility of choice in a world into which I had been thrust unwillingly, war was indeed an extension of the torture of being born . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSet during the difficult era of the Great War,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Devastation of Silence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the story of a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecaptain in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps who,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewith no documents showing his rank,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efinds himself in a German prison camp forced to share the circumstances of his poorer countrymen. He is hungry,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econstantly plagued by the sound of incessant detonations—and trying to finish his oral account of a strange story about a German scientist and voice recordings. In all this, he\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emust seek meaning in his observations, his dreams, and, above all, silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Portuguese by Adrian Minckley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoão Reis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1985) is a Portuguese writer and a literary translator of Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic). He studied philosophy and has lived in Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Reis's work has been compared to that of Hamsun and Kafka, and represents a literary style unseen in contemporary Portuguese writing.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Devastation of Silence\u003c\/em\u003e, his third novel,\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ewas\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003elonglisted for Prémio Oceanos 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdrian Minckley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas a BA in Social Theory from the Evergreen State College, and an MA in Literary Translation Studies from the University of Rochester.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer forthcoming translations include \u003ci\u003eThe Whore \u003c\/i\u003eby Márcia Barbieri (Sublunary Editions, 2023).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoão Reis:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Translator's Bride\u003c\/i\u003e is a neurotic little gem: fast, fun, frenzied, and feisty.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"João Reis . . . is a great connoisseur of literary comedy, in a subtle way in which everything is so natural, but simultaneously rude, with the cruel ways in which various characters are depicted, thus creating a blackly comic web that weaves together the world of the book.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Nelson Zagalo, \u003ci\u003eVirtual Illusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"João Reis’ great success in The Translator’s Bride is to convince his audience that they are reading a work written at modernism’s mid-twentieth-century zenith . . . pulling us out of our own times and holding us in the era of \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—West Camel\u003ci\u003e, European Literature Network\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"João Reis","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":43375477096684,"sku":"","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook","offer_id":43372330287340,"sku":"","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/9781948830638_FC.jpg?v=1665588399"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/collections\/Lykke_Nina_Agnete_Brun_Gyldendal_beskaret_a43bf127-7856-456e-8626-64490dce9d50.jpg?v=1767972825","url":"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/collections\/nina-lykke-copy-1\/adrian-minckley.oembed","provider":"Open Letter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}