Fiction. Translated from the Portuguese by Adria Frizzi. A collection of nine stories, NINE, NOVENA represents the turning point in Osman Lins's noted career, as he tells tales that concern the entrapment and search for the self and the mythic aspects of existence in a context of Brazilian experimentalism. Brilliantly translated by Adria Frizzi, these tales will delight any reader in love with character and language.

Author City: São Paulo BRA

Born in 1924 in Pernambuco state in northeastern Brazil, Osman Lins is one of the most innovative writers of contemporary Brazilian fiction. His work has received considerable critical attention in both Brazil and abroad and has been translated into several languages. Although his writing began in a more traditional, realistic vein, his later works—NINE, NOVENA (1966), Avalovara (1973), and The Queen of the Prisons of Greece (1976)—are characterized by formal innovations that reflect the evolution of his poetics and put him in a league with masters of contemporary Latin American fiction. He also produced several theater pieces and essays.

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