{"product_id":"harmada-9781949641059","title":"Harmada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Noll is a hero of Brazilian literature who deserves to be widely known in the English-speaking world and this fascinating shape-shifting novel is a wonderful introduction to his work.\" --Jenny Offill, author of \u003cem\u003eWeather\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike an Edenic Adam birthed from the clay, our narrator rises to his feet from the muck--reborn, or something like that. Unbeknownst to him, he's on a desperate search for Harmada, the capital city of an unnamed nation and the land of his former glory. Told using Noll's characteristic fragmented logic and spirited prose, \u003cem\u003eHarmada\u003c\/em\u003e traces the life of this nameless man on a voyage that takes him from aimless outcast to revered director of avant-garde theater, from asylum patient to father to God, conjuring along the way essential questions about the power of art and storytelling, the vanity of glory, and the meaning of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mythic tale of art and displacement nimbly translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto, \u003cem\u003eHarmada\u003c\/em\u003e serves as yet another reminder of Jo o Gilberto Noll's sublime literary power: generous in its mystery; earthbound in its essential urges; and entirely unpredictable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGarbelotto, Edgar:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Edgar Garbelotto is a writer and translator born in Brazil and based in the U.S. for the past 20 years. His translation of João Gilberto Noll's novel \u003cem\u003eLord\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Two Lines Press in 2019. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Asymptote, Ninth Letter, Little Patuxent Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois. \u003cem\u003eTerra Incognita\u003c\/em\u003e, written in both Portuguese and English, is his debut novel.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNoll, João Gilberto:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - João Gilberto Noll (1946-2017) is the author of nearly twenty books. His work appeared in Brazil's leading periodicals, and he was a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, King's College London, and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. A five-time recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti, and the recipient of more than ten awards in all, he died in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the age of 70.","brand":"Two Lines Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50370365653266,"sku":"9781949641059","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a164fc1-a746-4e2e-bdc3-bd5d1a31776b.jpg?v=1728531964","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/harmada-9781949641059","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}