Voices of the desert

Name: Voices of the desert
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SKU: 9786555872972
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Autor: Nélida Piñon

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Winner of the Jabuti Prize in the categories Best Novel and Book of the Year in 2005, Vozes do deserto , by Nélida Piñon, has a new edition.

In "Vozes do deserto ," Nélida Piñon not only recreates the story of the Arabian Nights but also highlights the role of a transgressive woman in a patriarchal society. Through a captivating and flawless narrative, Nélida follows the story of Scheherazade, the most brilliant young woman in the court, who, to save the kingdom's young women from the clutches of the powerful Caliph, decides to marry him. Daughter of the Vizier, who owed servitude to the powerful monarch, she refuses to believe that the Caliph's power can bring an end to her imagination.

According to Alfredo Bosi, who wrote the book's blurb:

"Nélida sees from within, with empathy at once strong and delicate, the woman whose fabulous Eastern creation had given us only a glimpse hidden within the folds of the Muslim veil. Now we know who Scheherazade is, for Nélida has revealed her profound nature: it is the magical force of the narrative voice that confronts, at every turn, oppression and death. The loveless, obscenely mechanical sex imposed on the young wife (possessed and unloved) fails to satisfy the bored Caliph; the thirst for words is more insatiable, and the desire to hear the unfinished tale is more imperious.

And it is this desire that saves the narrator and all the women for whom she sacrifices herself. This ritual includes the sovereign entangled in the web of power: Dinazarda, the image of shrewd prudence; and the slave Jasmine. Nélida knew how to extract from this elusive extra the mine of popular fantasy that fuels the storyteller's imagination.

Subtly and firmly, Nélida makes us hear the voices of the desert, where the narrator's dreams came from and where they go, finally freed from the mission she had imposed on herself. "He who has ears, let him hear—that's the word that remains to be said to the reader of this work that reinvents the fascination of the Arabian Nights."

For the Portuguese writer, translator and journalist António Mega Ferreira, Vozes do deserto is “one of the most beautiful novels written in Portuguese at the beginning of this century”.

ISBN	978-655-587-297-2
Tradutor
Altura	210 mm
Largura	135 mm
Profundidade	22 mm
Lançamento	08/11/2021
Páginas	400

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Nélida Piñon

Nélida Piñon estreou em 1961 com o romance Guia-mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo. É catedrática da Universidade de Miami desde 1990, havendo sido escritora-visitante das universidades de Harvard, Columbia, Johns Hopkins e Georgetown. Recebeu os prêmios brasileiros Golfinho de Ouro, Mário de Andrade e Jabuti - este, de melhor romance e livro de ficção de 2005, por Vozes do deserto. E os internacionais Juan Rulfo, do México; Jorge Isaacs, da Colômbia; Gabriela Mistral, do Chile; Rosalía de Castro, e Menéndez Pelayo, da Espanha. Em 2005, pelo conjunto de sua obra, recebeu o importante Príncipe de Astúrias. É doutora honoris causa das universidades Poitiers, Santiago de Compostela, Rutgers, Florida Atlantic, Montreal e UNAM. Em 1990, foi empossada como imortal pela Academia Brasileira de Letras e, em 1996, por ocasião do centenário da Academia, tornou-se a primeira mulher a presidi-la. Em 2012, foi nomeada Embaixadora Ibero-Americana da Cultura.

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