{"product_id":"quiet-creature-on-the-corner-9781931883511","title":"Quiet Creature on the Corner","description":"When an unemployed poet finds himself thrown in jail after raping his neighbor, his time in the slammer is mysteriously cut short when he's abruptly taken to a new home -- a countryside manor where his every need seen to. All that's required of him is to . . . write poetry. Just who are his captors, Kurt and Ot vio? What of the alluring maid, Am lia, and her charge, a woman with cancer named Gerda? And, most alarmingly of all, why does Kurt suddenly appear to be aging so much faster than he should? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReminiscent of the films of David Lynch, and written in Jo o Gilberto Noll's distinctive postmodern style -- a strange world of surfaces seemingly without rational cause and effect -- \u003ci\u003eQuiet Creature on the Corner\u003c\/i\u003e is the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most popular and celebrated authors. Written during Brazil's transition from military dictatorship to democracy -- and capturing the disjointed feel of that rapidly changing world -- \u003ci\u003eQuiet Creature\u003c\/i\u003e is mysterious and abrupt, pivoting on choices that feel both arbitrary and inevitable. Like Kazuo Ishiguro, Noll takes us deep into the mind of person who's always missing a few crucial pieces of information. Is he moving toward an answer to why these people have taken him from jail, or is he just as lost as ever?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJo?o Gilberto Noll\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nearly 20 books. His work has appeared in Brazil's leading periodicals, and he has been 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 Pr?mio Jabuti, and the recipient of over 10 awards in all, he lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Morris\u003c\/b\u003e has a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Stanford University and is the recipient of the 2012 Susan Sontag Foundation Prize in literary translation. He is the translator of Hilda Hilst's \u003ci\u003eWith My Dog-Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e (Melville House Books, 2014). His writing and translations have been published widely, including in \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003e and many others. He lives in San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Two Lines Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857096413458,"sku":"9781931883511","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7fc40ab1-3b4f-4705-8998-6b0b675e777c.jpg?v=1737521203","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quiet-creature-on-the-corner-9781931883511","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}