Vez em Quando, Billie Holiday

Diadorino was brought up among the violence of the sertão by a strongman who thrashes him for his fine, womanly face. Only the narrator knows his secret desire to live as Diadorina. To lure him out from his hiding place she offers him refuge inside their conversation, these very pages; she tells him tales peopled with figures from Guimarães Rosa; and she holds up for him women who freed themselves, Billie Holiday and Angela Davis, Beauvoir, Luxemburg, Arendt, Edith Stein and Akhmatova, a circle she wants him to join.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

128 pages in the original

Set in

Brazil

First published

2025 by Record

Author's age

80 when first published

ISBN

9788501923073 (original)