HORSE HANDS (ORIGINAL TITLE: MAOS DE CAVALHO)
Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B55404
English Summary/英文概要： HORSE HANDS follows the life of the same man, Hermano, over three defining moments of his life: a ten year old boy takes a spectacular fall from his bicycle. The most widely feared resident of a condominium in Porto Alegre suffers a violent foul during a game of football. Two friends prepare for the radical adventure of scaling the Cerro Bonete in Bolivia. Behind these disparate occurrences, which little by little begin to interconnect in dramatic time and space, Daniel Galera constructs a delicate plot about memory, loss and guilt.
The underlying key to these episodes is in the rites of passage typical of childhood and adolescence, moments of pure action that determine the personality and destiny of those who witness them. As life goes on, dormant memories surface and Hermano must deal with a past of turbulent emotions, complicated sexual experiences and death. This is a very original coming of age novel about identity.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
《HORSE HANDS》講述了Hermano人生的三個不同片段：
1 十歲時，從自行車上摔下來。
2 住在阿雷格里港的公寓時，在足球比賽中遭受惡劣犯規。
3 他和朋友一起挑戰一項刺激的任務：攀登玻利維亞的博內特峰
在這些片段之間總有時空上的聯繫。Daniel Galera創作了一個結合了記憶、逝去和罪孽的故事。
這些片段背後的關鍵是童年、少年之間的過渡儀式，那些決定個人個性和命運的純粹的時刻。隨著時間流逝，過去的記憶慢慢浮現，埃爾馬諾要對付狂暴的感情，複雜的性經歷與死亡。這是一本少年成長過程中的自我認定。
Awards/获奖情况：“這是由一位比同年人更成熟的作者創作的一本成長小說。無疑，這位多才有個性的作家，值得為他清新的寫作風格而稱讚。”——Carta Capital
版权已卖：
Brazil: Companhia das Letras;
UK:Penguin- Hamish Hamilton;
US: The Penguin Press (pub 2014);
Argentina: Interzona;
France: Gallimard;
Holland: Atlas Contact;
Italy: Mondadori;
Portugal: Caminho;
Romania: RAO
Praise for HORSE HANDS: “A carefully crafted Bildungsroman by a writer who has evolved more than any other of his generation” NoMinimo
“A talented writer, full of personality, laudable for the freshness of his writing”. Carta Capital
HORSE HANDS: Argentina: Interzona; Brazil: Companhia das Letras, France: Gallimard, Italy: Mondadori; Portugal: Caminho; Romania: Tao.
About the Author/作者介绍： Daniel Galera 1979年出生於聖保羅。他編撰、經營著一個文學網站；建立了一個極具影響力的獨立出版社，Livros do Mal。他曾經將Hunter S. Thompson, Jonathan Safran Foer, Zadie Smith 和 Irvine Welsh 的作品翻譯成葡萄牙語，引入巴西。他出版了一本短篇小說集和兩本小說。《HORSE HANDS》入圍巴西重要文學獎之一，成立於1985年的Jabuti 文學獎的決選名單。
Daniel 被《Granta》雜誌選為2012年最佳巴西小說家。
Daniel Galera was born in Sao Paulo in 1979. He wrote and edited literary websites, was one of the founders of an influential independent publishing house, Livros do Mal, and has translated Hunter S. Thompson, Jonathan Safran Foer, Zadie Smith and Irvine Welsh into Brazilian Portuguese. He has published a collection of short stories and three novels, two of which (including HORSE HANDS) have been shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize. His most recent project is the highly acclaimed graphic novel CACHALOTE, in association with Rafael Coutinho. His novel CORDILLERA is due to be adapted for the cinema in 2012.
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