Crow Blue
Ebook
Overview
I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn’t mine. in a city that wasn’t mine, in a country that wasn’t mine, with a one-man family that, in spite of the intersections and intentions (all very good), wasn’t mine.
When her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Vanja is left with no family and no sense of who she is, where she belongs, and what she should do. Determined to find her biological father to fill the void that has so suddenly appeared in her life, Vanja decides to leave Rio de Janeiro to live in Colorado with her stepfather, a former guerrilla notorious for his violent past. From there she goes in search of her biological father, tracing her mother’s footsteps and gradually discovering the truth about herself.
Rendered in lyrical and passionate prose, Crow Blue is a literary road trip through Brazil and America, and through dark decades of family and political history.
From a rising star of Brazilian literature, Crow Blue spins a far-reaching story of the search for one’s roots.
When God Was A Rabbit (Sarah Winman) meets The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)
Author has good social media presence: her Facebook page has over 2,000 likes (http://www.facebook.com/lisboa.adriana)
Among her honors are the José Saramago Award for her novel Symphony in White, a Japan Foundation Fellowship for Hut of Fallen Persimmons and a fellowship from the Brazilian National Library. In 2007, Hay Festival/Bogota World Book Capital selected her as one of the thirty-nine highest profile Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine.
Translated from the Portuguese by the reknowned translator Alison Entrekin
’A looking-back lyricism that befits a 22-year-old poetry-lover ... Reveal[s] how notions of home and of the self may be more defined by the people we travel with than where we end up
A classic coming-of-age narrative that also explores the dark side of Brazil’s political history
Vibrant
- Title: Crow Blue
- Authors: Adriana Lisboa, Alison Entrekin
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408838310, 9781408838303, 1408838303, 1408838311
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408838310
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:46:47Z
Brazilian author Adriana Lisboa was born in Rio de Janeiro. She has published ten books, among which five novels, a collection of short stories and prose poetry, and books for children. Her work has been translated in several countries, including France, Mexico, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Adriana Lisboa lived in France – where she performed as a Brazilian jazz singer – and currently resides in the United States, in Colorado.
www.adrianalisboa.com.br/en/
www.facebook.com/lisboa.adriana