PATRICIA MELO
© Kyrhian Balmelli
Patrícia Melo was born in 1962 and is a highly regarded novelist, playwright and scriptwriter. She has been awarded a number of internationally renowned prizes, including the Jabuti Prize 2001, the German LiBeraturpreis 2013 and the German Crime Award 1998 and 2014; she was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Time Magazine included her among the Fifty Latin American Leaders of the New Millennium.
By Patrícia Melo
Translated from the Portuguese by Sophie Lewis
Winner of the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro 2024 in the category Best Foreing Novel
Longlisted for the prestigious Prix Fémina 2023 in the category Best Foreign Novel
Nominated for the Prix des libraires du Québec
From best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression—by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063465
Publication date: Dec 5, 2023