No Dragons in Paradise
$59.30
- Paperback
210 pages
- Release Date
9 March 2027
Summary
Caio is one of those authors who is picked up by every generation. - talo Moriconi
For Abreu, writing is a form of salvation: from madness, from death, from invisibility, and, especially, from the self. -Bruna Dantas Lobato
The thirteen stories of No Dragons in Paradise are about love. “Love and sex, love and death, love and abandonment, love and joy, love and memory, love and fear, love and madness,” Caio Fernando Abreu writes in his epigraph. The stories can be read…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781962770835 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1962770834 |
| Author: | Caio Abreu, Bruna Lobato |
| Publisher: | Archipelago Books |
| Imprint: | Archipelago Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 210 |
| Release Date: | 9 March 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 165mm |
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Critics Review
“Love and its countless vagaries are the beating heart of Caio Fernando Abreu’s stunning collection, No Dragons In Paradise. The writing is sensual and poetic and, like its subject, visceral and tinged with urgency. Love has never felt so painful, palpable, and quite simply alive, as in the brilliant hands of Abreu.” —Mark Haber
“Tender, erotic, lyrical: Caio Fernando Abreu’s short stories in No Dragons in Paradise innovate Brazilian literature and detonate it from within.“—Julia Kornberg
Caio Abreu
Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Abreu was born in 1948 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He was a highly influential Brazilian writer during the 1970s and 80s, though his work is not widely recognized internationally. Abreu authored 20 books, including 12 short story collections and two novels. He received the prestigious Jabuti Prize for Fiction three times.
During Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985), his homoerotic writings faced significant censorship, leading to him being placed on a wanted list. He found solace in the literary counterculture formed by his peers Hilda Hilst and Dalton Trevisan, and later went into self-imposed exile in Europe. In 1994, while living in France, he was diagnosed with HIV. Abreu passed away two years later in his hometown at the age of 47.
Bruna Dantas Lobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato was born and raised in Natal, Brazil. She is a graduate of Bennington College and holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University. Currently, she is an Iowa Arts Fellow and an MFA candidate in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. Her writings, essays, and translations from Portuguese have been published in various literary journals and publications.
Lobato was a recipient of the 2018 A Public Space Fellowship, a 2019 PEN/Heim grant, and a resident at Yaddo. In 2022, she published the first English translation of Abreu’s short story collection, Moldy Strawberries. In 2024, she published her debut novel, The Blue Hours.
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