In English
National Book Award 2023 · Winner
The Words That Remain
A palavra que resta
Stênio Gardel · 41 when first published
Novel · 160 pages · Love, Family
Translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato
AI-generated summary:At seventy-one, an illiterate man from the Brazilian backlands decides to learn to read so he can open a letter he has kept for more than fifty years, written by the man he secretly loved.