To the careful and incisive reading from my dear friend Julia Bussius, my editor at Companhia das Letras, whose work was crucial for this book.
To Diana Passy, Nathália Dimambro and Clara Dias, for the warm welcome in their new home.
To the voice of Mayra Andrade, whose music was the sound track to the writing of this book.
To my dear agent and friend, Lucia Riff, for all her support and encouragement.
And to José Marcos and Beatriz, my family, for this love that we share, which grows every day.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Daniel Hahn is a British writer, editor, and translator. He is the author of a number of works of nonfiction, including the history book The Tower Menagerie, and is one of the editors of The Ultimate Book Guide, a series of reading guides for children and teenagers, the first volume of which won the Blue Peter Book Award.
His translation of The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. A former chair of the Translators Association, he is the national program director of the British Centre for Literary Translation and a trustee of the free expression charity English PEN.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Socorro Acioli was born in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. She is a journalist and has a master’s degree in Brazilian literature and a PhD in literary studies. She started her writing career in 2001 and since then has published books in various genres, including children’s short stories and YA novels, and has received Brazil’s most prestigious prize for children’s literature, the Jabuti Prize.
In 2006, she was selected to take part in a workshop conducted by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez. The author was selected by García Márquez himself based on her synopsis for The Head of the Saint. In 2007, she was a visiting researcher at a university in Germany, and she has lectured in several other countries, including Portugal, Bolivia, and Cape Verde. Acioli is also a translator, essayist, and literary theory teacher.
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