: Paulo Scott
: Phenotypes
: And Other Stories
: 9781913505196
: 1
: CHF 9.70
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 232
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Paulo Scott's second novel to appear in English probes the old wounds of race in Brazil; and in particular the loss of a black identity independent from the history of slavery. Exploratory rather than didactic; a story of crime; street-life; and regret as much as a satirical novel of ideas; Phenotypes is a seething masterpiece of rage and reconciliation.

Paulo Scott was born in 1966 in Porto Alegre; in southern Brazil. At university; he was an active member of the student political movement and was also involved in Brazil's re-democratisation process. For ten years he taught law at university in Porto Alegre; he has now published five books of fiction and four of poetry; and is also a translator from English. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 2008 to focus on writing full-time.