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APE 2017 · Shortlist
A Gorda
Title translated by AI:“The Fat Woman”
Isabela Figueiredo · 53 when first published
Novel · 285 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Maria Luísa is bright, good-looking, hard-working and determined, yet she is overweight, and that one fact colours everything as she bears her classmates' cruelty and goes after a life that is worth the effort.