JABUTI AWARD 2005 NOVEL CATEGORY At the airport in a freezing England, a Brazilian writer doesn't know what awaits him. He has received an invitation from a mysterious man, his tickets, and an offer of lodging, and he has embarked. In Lorde, João Gilberto Noll, with his critically acclaimed style, creates a character who wanders the streets, hospitals, and hotels, establishes fleeting relationships with strangers, and, as he says, has merely exchanged the solitude he experienced in Brazil for the solitude he experiences in England. In this book, the author masterfully exposes the ramblings of a subject who experiences the unknown in order to discover himself. • João Gilberto Noll is the author of nineteen books and has also had works published in Argentina, England, Italy, and Israel. • The author was honored with several awards, including the Jabuti in 1981, 1994, 1997, 2004 and 2005. • “João Gilberto Noll, a lord of well-managed affliction, offers the reader another important work.” – IstoÉ