A Poison Apple

It is both timely and gratifying to see one of the country’s outstanding writers come to the attention of an English-language readership – Ángel Gurría-Quintana * Financial Times *
I read A Poison Apple in two impulsive, impatient sittings… Michel Laub is one of the most intelligent novelists at work south of the equator. If he were north of the equator, he’d be one of the most intelligent novelists there too. I love the minute intricacy of his compositions, and the way they stage such giant traumas. – Adam Thirlwell
In this sly and unexpected novel, Laub asks how some thrive in spite of trauma and others fall apart in the face of success. * Financial Times *
DIARY OF THE FALL: Extraordinary… In my world, this novel is already a classic – Karl Ove Knausgaard
DIARY OF THE FALL: A work of immense incantatory power – Neel Mukherjee * Literary Review *
One of Brazil’s finest authors offers a meditation on betrayal, guilt, survival and the many ways in which personal and collective histories collide. – Financial Times, Best Books of 2017
The narrator is… a Nick Carraway-type whose apparent detachment eventually collapses to reveal deep emotion. In this sly and unexpected novel, Laub asks how some thrive in spite of trauma and others fall apart in the face of success. * Financial Times *

Michel Laub (Author)

Michel Laub was born in Porto Alegre and currently lives in Sao Paulo. He is a writer and journalist, and was named one of Granta’s twenty ‘Best of Young Brazilian Novelists’. Diary of the Fall, which received the Brasilia Award, was his first novel to appear in English. It won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize 2015 and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2016.

Daniel Hahn (Translator)

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and literary translator. He translates from Portuguese, Spanish and French and has translated literature from Europe, Africa and the Americas, including the work of Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Philippe Claudel, Maria Duenas, Eduardo Halfon, Jose Luis Peixoto, Jose Saramago and Gonçalo M. Tavares. His translations have won literary awards including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and the LA Times Book Award. He is also the author of several works of non-fiction, including The Tower Menagerie and the forthcoming If This Be Magic, and the award-winning children’s picture-book Happiness is a Watermelon on Your Head, and is co-editor of ‘The Ultimate Book Guide’ series. He reviews for publications including the Guardian, Spectator and Prospect, and is former Chair of the Translators Association and the Society of Authors and former National Programme Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation.

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