There Were Many Horses

Name: There Were Many Horses
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Luiz Ruffato
ISBN: 9781480593947

Author: Luiz Ruffato, Anthony Doyle

Narrator: Luiz Ruffato

Unabridged: 4 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 10/14/2014

Categories: Fiction, Cultural Fiction, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

There Were Many Horses is a groundbreaking work of contemporary Brazilian literature now available in English for the first time.It’s May 9, 2000, and São Paulo is teeming with life. As Luiz Ruffato describes the scenes around him on this one typical day, he deciphers every minute and second of a metropolis marked by diversity—a mosaic of people from all over Brazil and the world that defines São Paulo’s personality at the start of the twenty-first century. The city is more than just traffic jams, parks, and global financial maneuvering. It is alive, and every rat and dusty grocery truck informs its distinctive character.Winner of the Brazilian National Library’s Machado de Assis Award and the APCA Award for best novel.

About Luiz Ruffato

Born in 1961, in Cataguases, Brazil, Luiz Ruffato grew up in a poor migrant family. He worked, among other jobs, as a textile worker and a turner-mechanical, and he studied journalism. In 2001, his debut novel, There Were Many Horses, was praised for its vivid depiction of the urbanization of the author’s hometown, São Paulo. The book revolutionized Brazilian literature, winning critical acclaim and a number of prizes, including the Brazilian National Library’s Machado de Assis Award and the APCA Award for best novel. A jury of literary critics from the newspaper O Globo proclaimed the book, which has now been translated into German, Spanish, French, and Italian and published in Portugal, to be one of the ten best Brazilian books of recent decades.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kirja on September 06, 2018

Rutosti hevosia on hurja ja julma; surullinen ja metelöivä. Se on tykittävän kakofonian täyttämä kuvaus pienissä lokeroissaan pyristelevistä onnettomista ihmisistä yhteiskunnan laidalla - ympärillään tuo mieletön miljoonakaupunki - yli 12 miljoonan Sāo Paulo. Rikkaat ovat suojautuneet väkivallalta s......more

Goodreads review by Héctor on June 16, 2020

Romanzo di una tra le voci più interessanti della narrativa brasiliana contemporanea, già premio Machado de Assis 2001, Come tanti cavalli è un testo sperimentale con il quale Ruffato immagina un giorno qualunque nella vita della metropoli di San Paolo. Lo fa attraverso sessantanove micro-storie non......more

Goodreads review by Janne on July 30, 2019

Rutosti hevosia on häkellyttävä teos. Sen noin 70 lukua, joita kutakin voi kai pienoisnovelliksi kutsua, kertovat yhdestä päivästä São Paolossa. Ruffato pyrkii kuvaamaan tuon valtaisan metropolin monia kulmia enimmäkseen erilaisten köyhien ja huono-osaisten silmin. Otteet ovat kuin nopeita kuvakaapp......more

Goodreads review by Luciano on December 05, 2024

Este libro condensa varias cosas a la vez: microrrelatos, ciclo de cuentos, narrativa fragmentaria, vanguardismo. Gira en torno a una idea central muy interesante: tratar de reflejar los contrastes y la diversidad de una megalópolis como Sao Paulo. A través de los cuentos que presentan diferentes pe......more