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← Back to all issuesGranta 121: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists
Autumn 2012
Brazil, the great Jorge Amado said, is not a country but a continent. In this latest instalment of the Best of Young Novelists series that introduced Jonathan Franzen, Salman Rushdie, A.L. Kennedy and Zadie Smith, Granta presents the young writers who are telling modern Brazil’s vast and compelling story – and who are its future.
From this Issue
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Violeta
Miguel Del Castillo
‘As if they longed to dive in but somehow couldn’t manage to.’
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That Wind Blowing through the Plaza
Laura Erber
‘I didn’t go for the dental treatment, or for the gypsy dancing’
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Valdir Peres, Juanito and Poloskei
Antonio Prata
‘The only path to tread, from now on, was downward.’
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Rat Fever
Javier Arancibia Contreras
‘Everything around me, myself included, is warm and sticky.’
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Far from Ramiro
Chico Mattoso
‘Through the eyes of the intruder, Ramiro saw the invasion of his own space.’
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Lion
Luisa Geisler
‘The better they were at escaping, the quicker, more daring they were, the harder the cat chased them.’
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Still Life
Vinicius Jatobá
‘You see the house and its time, the house and the house alone, though your secrets, your fears and silences still exist there, locked away behind the denseness of the closed doors’
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Apnoea
Daniel Galera
‘I could make you promise much worse things.’ Daniel Galera muses on unknown family histories.
