Violeta among the Stars

Violeta is driving along a lonely stretch of late-night motorway when her car veers off the road, overturns, and comes to rest on an empty stretch of sodden ground. She reflects on her death and her life, the piercing highs and the seedy lows, in an astonishing portrait of a seemingly insignificant life from one of Portugal's greatest living writers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 12 May 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Violeta is driving along a lonely stretch of late-night motorway, caught in a tumultuous storm. When her tired eyes close for just a second, her car veers off the road, overturns, and comes to rest on an empty stretch of sodden ground. And as she lies amid the wreckage, suspended between this world and the next, Violeta's troubled life will quite literally flash before her eyes.

Violeta Among the Stars weaves memories and feelings as Violeta reflects on her death and her life, the piercing highs and the seedy lows. An astonishing portrait of a seemingly insignificant life from one of Portugal's greatest living writers. An extraordinary piece of writing on the life of an ordinary woman. Litro. Absolutely compelling. This novel is truly unforgettable. Irish Independent. Translated from the Portuguese by Ángel Gurría-Quintana. Ángel Gurría-Quintana is a historian, journalist, and literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. He writes regularly for the books pages of the Financial Times, and his translations include the anthology Other Carnivals: Short Stories from Brazil and The Return, by Dulce Maria Cardoso.

With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union,

Weight: 280g
Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529415148