Vista Chinesa

Júlia's firm is designing buildings for the Olympic Village, and the whole city feels it is on the rise. Before a meeting with the municipality she goes for a run in the woods of Alto da Boa Vista; a man with a gun forces her off the path and assaults her. She struggles home, helped by a friend, then endures shame, misplaced guilt and a police inquiry in which looking poor makes anyone a suspect. Years later she recounts it all to her children, along with gentler memories of falling in love, a beach honeymoon and pregnancy, reclaiming her body and her story.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

112 pages in the original

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, 2014

First published

2021 by Todavia

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9786551140204 (original)

9781957363370 (Scribe, United States)

9781914484223 (Scribe, United Kingdom)