{"product_id":"quiet-creature-on-the-corner-paperback","title":"Quiet Creature on the Corner - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoão Gilberto Noll\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdam Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen an unemployed poet finds himself thrown in jail after raping his neighbor, his time in the slammer is mysteriously cut short when he's abruptly taken to a new home -- a countryside manor where his every need seen to. All that's required of him is to . . . write poetry. Just who are his captors, Kurt and Ot vio? What of the alluring maid, Am lia, and her charge, a woman with cancer named Gerda? And, most alarmingly of all, why does Kurt suddenly appear to be aging so much faster than he should? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReminiscent of the films of David Lynch, and written in Jo o Gilberto Noll's distinctive postmodern style -- a strange world of surfaces seemingly without rational cause and effect -- \u003ci\u003eQuiet Creature on the Corner\u003c\/i\u003e is the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most popular and celebrated authors. Written during Brazil's transition from military dictatorship to democracy -- and capturing the disjointed feel of that rapidly changing world -- \u003ci\u003eQuiet Creature\u003c\/i\u003e is mysterious and abrupt, pivoting on choices that feel both arbitrary and inevitable. Like Kazuo Ishiguro, Noll takes us deep into the mind of person who's always missing a few crucial pieces of information. Is he moving toward an answer to why these people have taken him from jail, or is he just as lost as ever?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoão Gilberto Noll\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nearly 20 books. His work has appeared in Brazil's leading periodicals, and he has been a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, King's College London, and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. A five-time recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti, and the recipient of over 10 awards in all, he lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Morris\u003c\/b\u003e has a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Stanford University and is the recipient of the 2012 Susan Sontag Foundation Prize in literary translation. He is the translator of Hilda Hilst's \u003ci\u003eWith My Dog-Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e (Melville House Books, 2014). His writing and translations have been published widely, including in \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003e and many others. He lives in San Francisco.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 6.9 x 4.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695228686399,"sku":"9781931883511","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/007fcdc66d32afd4cc3d01d4ebe7a696.webp?v=1765003056","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/quiet-creature-on-the-corner-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}