Norma's fingers

FEMININE SINGULARITY IN UNPUBLISHED STORIES BY ONE OF BRAZIL'S MOST IMPORTANT POETS Norma's Fingers brings together 22 unpublished stories by diplomat and poet Geraldo Holanda Cavalcanti about the diverse facets of femininity. Holanda Cavalcanti creates strong characters—such as Norma, Lucrezia, Aspásia, and Marina—weaves odes to women's eyes and necks, and recounts encounters and disagreements, in an essentially urban and postmodern style. • Geraldo Holanda Cavalcanti is a diplomat, poet, essayist, memoirist, and award-winning translator. His debut fiction, Encontro em Ouro Preto, was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize in 2008. He was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2010, of which he was elected president in 2014. • “...a charming book, of great richness (...) Norma's fingers focus on the feminine, on her poetics of encounter, or its inverse, of the part against the whole. Not the face, but the fingers. And her delicate poetry.” – Marco Lucchesi