Beatriz e o Poeta

Beatriz, a translator in her forties, sits most days in a small Curitiba café with her laptop, rendering a Catalan philosopher into Portuguese, masked except when she sips her drink. It is the first pandemic year, before vaccines, and Brazil is ruled by a government she finds unbearable. One day Gabriel, a young poet whose mother is a psychologist and whose father is a famous TV pundit, stops at her table and starts talking, leaping from topic to topic, unsure where his life is headed. Chapters told from outside alternate with his long, rambling efforts to win her over, in which he lays out his past and his view of the present. Kept apart by distancing rules, the two edge toward each other, and her settled ideas about thought, morals and feeling begin to shift.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

192 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, 2020s

First published

2022 by Todavia

Author's age

70 when first published

ISBN

9786556922775 (original)