The Books that Devoured my Father: The Strange and Magical Story of Vivaldo Bonfim
Jun 2021 · SCB Distributors
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Vivaldo Bonfim was a bored book-keeper whose main escape from the tedium of his work was provided by novels. In the office, he tended to read rather than work, and, one day, became so immersed in a book that he got lost and disappeared completely. That, at least, is the version given to Vivaldo’s son, Elias, by his grandmother. One day, Elias sets off, like a modern-day Telemachus, in search of the father he never knew. His journey takes him through the plots of many classic novels, replete with murders, all-consuming passions, wild beasts and other literary perils.
*The Book that Devoured my Father is, at once, a celebration of filial love, friendship and literature.
Translated by the UK finest translator of Portuguese, Margaret Jull Costa
*The Book that Devoured my Father is, at once, a celebration of filial love, friendship and literature.
Translated by the UK finest translator of Portuguese, Margaret Jull Costa
Vivaldo Bonfim was a bored book-keeper whose main escape from the tedium of his work was provided by novels. In the office, he tended to read rather than work, and, one day, became so immersed in a book that he got lost and disappeared completely. That, at least, is the version given to Vivaldo’s...
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Afonso Cruz (1971) has so far written thirteen works of fiction, and his work has already brought him many prizes, with The Books that Devoured my Father winning the 2010 Prémio Literário Maria Rosa Colaço. As well as working as a writer, illustrator and maker of animated films, he also sings and plays in the blues/roots band The Soaked Lamb.
Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers. In 2013, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in 2014, was awarded an OBE for services to literature. In 2018, she was awarded the Ordem Infante D. Henrique by the Portuguese government and a Lifetime Award for Excellence in Translation by the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in New York.
Afonso Cruz (1971) has so far written thirteen works of fiction, and his work has already brought him many prizes, with The Books that Devoured my Father winning the 2010 Prémio Literário Maria Rosa Colaço. As well as working as a writer, illustrator and maker of animated films, he also sings and...
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