Carla Madeira's three bestsellers— Everything is a River, The Nature of the Bite , and Eve —are together for the first time in a deluxe box set. Featuring a hardcover, three-sided design, and a new graphic design, the novels feature previously unpublished forewords by Mia Couto, Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, and Tatiana Salem Levy, and are accompanied by a booklet with texts never before collected in a book.
Carla Madeira is a literary phenomenon. The best-selling and most widely read Brazilian fiction writer in recent years has had all three of her books on the bestseller list simultaneously! Her works have already been published to great acclaim in Portugal and will soon be available in Mexico, Italy, and Russia. In addition, Madeira has earned critical acclaim, as evidenced by the previously unpublished forewords included in these new editions, written by leading figures from the literary and academic world.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first release of Tudo é rio , its three novels are collected in a luxury hard box. In this new graphic design, by award-winning designer Flávia Castanheira, all books feature hardcovers, three-sided paintings, and images by English artist Jess Allen. The collection also includes a booklet with three short stories by the author and a text in which she discusses her creative process, never before collected in a book.
Everything is a river (176 pages)
"Tudo é rio" tells the story of Dalva and Venâncio, a couple whose lives are transformed after a tragic loss, and Lucy, the city's most depraved and sought-after prostitute, who forms a love triangle with them. With mature, precise, yet powerful and poetic writing, Carla Madeira presents us with a moving narrative and characters of rare psychological depth.
Foreword by Mia Couto.
The Nature of the Bite (240 pages)
"What do you no longer have that saddens you so much?" It is with this question that Biá, a retired psychoanalyst, approaches the young journalist Olívia for the first time. The unexpected provocation, coming from a stranger, triggers a succession of encounters, marked by growing intimacy, which gradually reveal their stories. With alternating voices, the strength of Olívia's objective, descriptive, and linear discourse contrasts with Biá's scattered notes, whose fragments of an already flawed and unreliable memory lead to a turning point in the plot that will reveal the events that shaped each of their pasts.
Foreword by Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil.
Eve (264 pages)
Devastated by a loveless marriage, Vedina, in a moment of loss of control, abandons her son on the street. Immediately regretful, upon returning to the place where she left him, he is no longer there. From this initial trauma, the narrative shows us the lives of twins Cain and Abel, as well as those of Vedina and Veneza, marked by fate and separation. Told in two time periods—the days following the boy's abandonment on the street and the days before it—the novel advances like two waves, which then collide and illuminate the entire human landscape set in motion.
Foreword by Tatiana Salem Levy.
