{"product_id":"9781949641516","title":"So Many People, Mariana","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCLAIRE'S PICK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo Many People, Mariana\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection that takes seriously the reality, however inconvenient, of other people. In these stories, Carvalho attends to the condition of the soul, of social lives and feral deviations, and studies “the silence of [these] noises.” This phrase comes from the eponymous story and suggests, to my mind, Carvalho’s method: to listen to mechanisms, like work and marriage, that capitalism and patriarchy seek to mute, and amplify them. Carvalho stresses the muscles of money by writing holes into socks and sad hats onto women’s heads, and Jull Costa’s sleek translation reads as coolly inevitable as circumstance. These sentences lay a bloodless hand to a world flush with itself. - CF\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Margaret Jull Costa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong discounted by a literary culture that actively rejected women’s writing, Maria Judite de Carvalho’s biting and bitterly funny work has since exploded across the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollecting the entirety of her short works written between 1959 and 1967, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewhen the Salazar dictatorship and the rigid edicts of the Catholic church reigned, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe stories in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo Many People, Mariana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e might as well have been written today. These are tough, unflinching accounts of women trapped by a culture that values them as workers or wives but not as people. And if they do escape their circumstances, they are, more often than not, irrevocably punished by the world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback | 450 pages | 5.00\" x 8.00\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maria Judith De Carvalho","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44591263514856,"sku":"9781949641516x","price":30.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/m_2448d26d-754a-4630-bbeb-9c11448a83bb.jpg?v=1688328139","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/9781949641516","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}