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As she awaits a call from a daughter who lives abroad, an elderly woman looks back on her life from the confines of her Rio apartment. Leite’s lyrical style, reminiscent of Natalia Ginzburg, reveals stories of friendship, marriage, death and dictatorship with wonder and even humor.
“My Good Friend”, short story by the author, The Paris Review.
A picture of a changing California through the lens of a wayward Brazilian teacher. The golden hippie days are long gone and growing weed, legally or otherwise, is mired in the same problems as any capitalist enterprise. In the vein of Emma Cline’s The Girls and with the documentary heft of “Murder Mountain”, The Smoke Gardeners Club is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a region in transition.
Jabuti winner, São Paulo prize finalist.
Extract in Washington Square Review.
Short story by the author in Litro.
Short story by the author in Cuír, from Two Lines.
Co-translation with Julia Sanches
While waiting for a flight, a woman runs into the palliative care physician who treated her late father, Artur, reawakening her grief. A powerful portrait of death, love, grief, and the search for identity. For fans of Annie Ernaux and Karl Ove Knausgård.
A young architect begins an intense romance with a man she meets on a dating app. Things appear to be going well until one day Pedro stops replying to Mirela’s messages and answering her calls, sending her spiralling. A sensitive portrayal of millennial love and the pain of being ghosted. For fans of the complex, raw emotions of Sally Rooney and the non-linear, fragmented style of Jenny Offill. Viral bestseller in Brazil.
In this genre-bending collection of short fiction, Stigger adopts a variety of forms: stories, epiphanies, poems, texts inspired by theatre. The result is as an absolutely irresistible whole, a terrifying and humorous exploration of our fragilities (both mental and corporeal).
Jabuti Finalist.
Selected Pieces in The White Review (2019)
Part of 2021 AOS Portuguese Reading Group - Sample & more info available here.
A down-on-his-luck western writer is presented with a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of a film director's invitation: he wants Eugênio to write a film script. But there’s a catch: to write this script, Eugênio must spend three months isolated in a luxury hotel, with no contact with the world he knows.
A fascinating (often fantastical) book that spans decades of history and an ocean. A stunning and cinematic novel that feels at once contemporary and classic, a love letter to Brazilian modernism.
Prizes: Machado de Assis, Açorianos, São Paulo Literature prize, and finalist for Portugal Telecom & Jabuti.
2015 PEN/Heim grant.