Edgar Garbelotto).Īnd don’t forget Bjørn Rasmussen’s The Skin is the Elastic Covering that Encases the Entire Body, translated from Danish by Martin Aitken. Edgar Garbelotto)-which won the prestigious 2020 Jabuti Prize for Brazilian literature published abroad-and Harmada (tr. We can’t resist adding the four Two Lines Press books by celebrated Brazilian author João Gilberto Noll to this list: Quiet Creature on the Corner (tr. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love.
This story collection explores the way women love each other―the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. Sweeping nearly every major Brazilian literary prize in 2016―including the Prêmio Jabuti and Prêmio Açorianos de Literatura― Amora propelled Natalia Borges Polesso to the forefront of the international literary world. Amora: Storiesby Natalia Borges Polesso, translated from Portuguese by Julia Sanches Only Bea's discovery that Erica is half-Jewish and a member of the Dutch resistance-and thus in danger-brings her closer to accepting her own feelings.įirst published in 1954 in the Netherlands, Dola de Jong's The Tree and the Vine was a groundbreaking work in its time for its frank and sensitive depiction of the love between two women, now available in a new translation.7. Bea, a reserved secretary, grows increasingly obsessed with Erica, yet denial and shame keep her from recognizing her attraction. Erica, a reckless young journalist, pursues passionate but abusive affairs with different women. When Bea meets Erica at the home of a mutual friend, this chance encounter sets the stage for the story of two women torn between desire and taboo in the years leading up to the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. "De Jong depicts the darker, dangerous side of the world of same-sex desire, and the way it's a source of torment-physical and psychological-for those who exist within it."- The Paris Review
"A jewel hidden in plain sight."- Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
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