The Spies - Hardcover

Fernando Veríssimo, Luís

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857051121 ISBN 13: 9780857051127

Publisher: MacLehose Press, 2012

Synopsis

A frustrated publisher receives a mysterious angst-ridden manuscript: 'a friend' must send it in installments; its contents would put the author in danger. As he pieces together the story, he learns that the author is the wife of one of the two Martelli brothers - gangsters who dominate a small town in the Brazilian interior. Surely her dark outpourings are a cry for help? One by one, he dispatches his motley collection of friends to Frondosa - a town totally obsessed with five-a-side football - to investigate and to bring her to safety.

About this title

Review:

'An unsual elegance and lightness of touch, as well as a lingering underlying melancholy. It's nicely written too - the translation is as smooth as silk' Andrew Taylor, Spectator. (Spectator)

'At barely 200 pages, and with a note-perfect translation from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa, The Spies shares with a cryptic crossword the virtue of succinctness, not a word or scene wasted' Hannah Rosefield, Observer. (Observer)

About the Author:

Luís Fernando Veríssimo is a satirist, cartoonist, translator, television writer, saxophonist, playwright and novelist. With over sixty published titles, he is one of the most popular of contemporary Brazilian writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: MacLehose Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857051121
• ISBN 13: 9780857051127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208