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Violeta Among The Stars

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suddenly

I should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, for some time, seconds, hours, I can do nothing,


suddenly I stop



Violeta is driving along a lonely stretch of late-night motorway, in the midst of a fearsome storm. When her tired eyes close for just a second, her car veers off the road, rolls down a muddy embankment, over and over, and comes to rest on an empty stretch of sodden ground.

And as she lies amid the wreckage of her car, suspended between this world and the next, Violeta's life will quite literally flash before her eyes . . .

Scenes from her past overlap with what happened right before the accident: her upbringing with her distant, critical mother; her father's mysterious double-life; her troubled relationship with her daughter; her life on the road as she drives between waxing product-selling appointments with breaks at motorway service stations, the abuse from other travellers mocking her size, the alcohol, the risky encounters with lorry drivers on filthy public toilet floors...

Violeta Among the StarsĀ weaves memories and feelings as Violeta reflects on her death, her life, her reality and her dreams. An astonishing portrait of a seemingly insignificant life, from one of Portugal's greatest living writers.

Translated from the Portuguese by Ɓngel Gurrƭa-Quintana

Ɓngel GurrĆ­a-Quintana is a historian, journalist and literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. He writes regularly for the books pages of theĀ 
Financial Times, and his translations include the anthologyĀ Other Carnivals: Short Stories from BrazilĀ andĀ The Return, by Dulce Maria Cardoso.

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

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