Amora, Natalia Borges Polesso
Amora, Natalia Borges Polesso
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Amora
Stories

Author: Natalia Borges Polesso, Julia Sanches

Narrator: Rebecca Mozo

Unabridged: 4 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/19/2020

Synopsis

From an emerging talent comes an exquisite collection of stories exploring the complexity of love between women, each a delicate piece in a mosaic transcending the boundaries of literary romance.Amora dares explore the way women love each other—the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love.Together, these stories and the women who inhabit them reveal an illuminating portrait of the sacred female romance, with all its nuances, complexities, burdens, and triumphs revealed. Violence, sickness, chaos, tenderness, beauty, and freedom adorn these pages in a mosaic of unforgettable moments, including a lesbian granddaughter discovering unexpected commonalities with her grandmother, a teenager’s tryst with her friend after disenchanting sex with a boy, and an old couple’s dreamy Sunday-morning ritual.Sweeping nearly every major Brazilian literary prize in 2016—including the Prêmio Jabuti and Prêmio Açorianos de Literatura—Amora has propelled Natalia Borges Polesso to the forefront of the international literary world.

About Natalia Borges Polesso

Natalia Borges Polesso is from Bento Gonçalves in Brazil. She is a writer and a translator with a PhD in literary theory. She is the author of Cutouts for Photo Album without People (2013), Amora (2015)—which in 2016 won the Prêmio Jabuti, the Jabuti Amazon Reader’s Choice Award, the Book of the Year AGES Award, and the Prêmio Açorianos de Literatura—and Control (2019), among other titles. In 2017, she was one of only two Brazilian authors on the Bogotá39 list, which selects the most promising Latin American authors under thirty-nine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by OZZY on March 26, 2022

"Amora delicada, ora doce, ora ácida, ora áspera, sempre frágil, aquosa." Não tenho palavras para descrever o sentimento de paixão descontrolada por esse livro que só foi aumentando a cada página.......more

Goodreads review by mel on October 03, 2017

Deitou a cabeça no ombro de Angélica, que lhe deu um beijo na têmpora, um beijo comprido, cheio de pensamentos quentes. Mas foi a coisa mais brega, dita depois, que fez Amora entender: Você é quase toda amor. I don't know where to begin. Finding out about this book was one of the best things that hav......more

Goodreads review by Rafaela on March 23, 2021

Sinto que eu precisava fazer essa leitura nesse exato momento. É um livro tão lindo, tão cheio de desejo, de encanto e de poesia que tornou esses meus últimos dias mais doces e prazerosos. Me trouxe de volta o ânimo (e tantas outras coisas) que 2020 levou embora; me fez sentir novamente aquele calor......more

Goodreads review by H.A. on May 29, 2020

I live in Portugal and am always keen to read the works of Portuguese and Brazilian authors. I reached out to this collection of short stories because I wanted to read a book both in English and its original language. These stories were ideal for this and what an amazing experience I had. It's rare......more

Goodreads review by mia on February 15, 2021

eu tô COMPLETAMENTE apaixonada por esses contos sáficos incríveis sobre amor, cotidiano, dificuldades, deixar ir, estranheza, descobrimento, não sentir e sentir muito, e tudo de mais natural e humano que poderia ser escrito sobre amor! nem sei muito o que falar porque cada conto me trouxe os melhore......more

Quotes

“With brevity, abstraction, and narrative tension, Polesso offers a poignant look at women alternately broken down and resilient. Fans of Lucia Berlin will love these tense and twisty tales.” —Publishers Weekly“Borges Polesso explores the depths of amorous relationships between women young and old, married and single, out and closeted, independent and cripplingly co-dependent—but first and foremost, in love…A romp through 33 stories of lesbian love.” —Kirkus Reviews“[A] thrillingly idiosyncratic collection.” —OprahMag.com

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