{"title":"Marta Barcellos","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarta Barcellos é escritora e jornalista, autora do livro de contos \u003cem\u003eAntes que seque\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), vencedor do Prêmio Sesc de Literatura e do Prêmio Clarice Lispector da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, além de finalista do Prêmio Rio de Literatura e semifinalista do Oceanos. Carioca, é formada em jornalismo pela UFRJ e mestre em Literatura pela PUC-Rio. Como jornalista, trabalhou por vinte anos na redação de veículos do Rio de Janeiro e de São Paulo. \u003cem\u003eA cortesia da casa\u003c\/em\u003e é o seu primeiro romance.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-cortesia-da-casa","title":"The courtesy of the house","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Sesc and National Library awards in the Short Story category, Marta Barcellos makes her debut in the novel with \u003cem\u003eA Cortesia da Casa\u003c\/em\u003e , a plot set in a luxury spa in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Denise, a middle-aged woman staying at the Montana Spa in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, struggles to fulfill her social role and maintain a superficiality. Amidst a routine that normalizes calorie counting, plastic surgery, and scatological situations, she tries to conform to the standards set by an elite that seems as lost as she is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe narrative is delicate and the character's observations and annoyances are gradually revealed in the details: the problems with her husband, her son, her daughter-in-law and her friend Lena, whose busy and bohemian routine she accompanies on occasional dates, and whose interest in Denise's life hides a secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e With a work of concealment in language and without slipping into caricature, A Cortedade da Casa uses the artificial environment of the spa to depict the midlife crisis of a woman who suddenly feels discarded—by her husband Vicente, her son Bruno, and the job market—and begins to experience episodes of binge eating. The reader accesses the gaps in the narratives the character creates for herself and glimpses the helplessness and emptiness left by the absence of the men she cared for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In this thought-provoking novel, Marta Barcellos offers, with beauty, humor, and irony, a commentary on frivolity and a subtle and ironic critique of class about a woman in crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"The author's witty narrative provokes ambiguous feelings in us, the readers: we are both amused and displeased by Denise's frivolity, while simultaneously understanding the social and patriarchal mechanisms that forged her. We root for her to break out of her shell and reveal herself, or discover herself. Or free herself. A moving effect masterfully constructed by Marta Barcellos.\" – Claudia Lage\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176262549756,"sku":"9788501920171","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/edd5fd18849b538e6d2d51659fe547bf_94d85413-6c99-4123-96b9-d2c03d154810.jpg?v=1778875409"},{"product_id":"antes-que-seque","title":"Before it dries","description":"Winner of the 2015 SESC Literature Award in the Short Stories category. The twelve women portrayed in Marta Barcellos's short stories face a common impossibility: getting pregnant and living up to an idealized maternal figure. Marta weaves these stories together with effective language, at once poignant and delicate, inciting the reader, fascinating them, and guiding them through tales that revolve around the upper-middle class and its codes; the promise of happiness unfulfilled by consumer standards and appearances; the urgency and unease of living in a society of contrasts. Before it dries up, she surprises us with profound re-examinations of what the act of telling a story can be: inventive reinterpretations in a seemingly inexhaustible form.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176731689212,"sku":"9788501103772","price":39.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/fce606d28873579ee1104bf5bd7ef78d.jpg?v=1778325489"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/marta-barcellos.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}