{"product_id":"moldy-strawberries-stories","title":"Moldy Strawberries: Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMoldy Strawberries: Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCaio Abreu\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781953861207\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eArchipelago\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eTranslation\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaio Fernando Abreu is one of those authors who is picked up by every generation...\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these surreal and gripping stories about desire, tyranny, fear, and love, one of Brazil's greatest queer writers appears in English for the first time \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 18 daring, scheming stories filled with tension and intimacy, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the 80s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTenderly suspended between fear and longing, Abreu's characters grasp for connection: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA man speckled with Carnival glitter crosses a crowded dance floor and seeks the warmth and beauty of another body.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA budding office friendship between two young men turns into a surprising love, \"a strange and secret harmony.\" One man desires another but fears a clumsy word or gesture might tear their plot to pieces.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAbreu writes the stories of people whose intimate lives are on the verge of imploding at all times. Even simple gestures--a salvaged cigarette, a knock on the door from the hazy downpour of a dream, a tight-lipped smile--are precarious offerings. Junkies, failed revolutionaries, poets, and conflicted artists face threats at every turn. But, inwardly ferocious and secretly resilient, they heal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these stories there is luminous memory and decay, and beauty on the horizon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTranslated by Bruna Dantas Lobato, currently an Iowa Arts Fellow and MFA candidate in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Archipelago","offers":[{"title":"Moldy Strawberries: Stories | Caio Abreu | Paperback | 9781953861207 | New | Fiction 1434083","offer_id":50563810918658,"sku":"1434083","price":38.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61p9bbP4jgL.jpg?v=1790748483","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/moldy-strawberries-stories","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}