São Paulo – The novel And the Family Devoured Its Men by Syrian author Dima Wannus, translated into Brazilian Portuguese by Safa Jubran and published by Tabla, is hitting Brazilian bookstores. The book brings for the first time to Brazilian readers this powerful account about the meanings, dimensions and implications of the diaspora as symbolized by the relation between two generations of Syrian women. The book is on presale on the website of publisher Tabla and will be shipped on March 20.
In the book, the reader gets to know the stories of a women-headed family through the dialogues between the narrator and her mother. Dima Wannus paints portraits of these women and the twists and turns of their lives with a concise, bright, straightforward and witty language.
They go over the times, not so long ago, where they were a large family, all women, living in Damascus. In flashbacks, her mother chronicles every detail of what has been forever lost to them; the morning light in Damascus, the taste of her sister’s cooking, the sound of her closet’s doors, the smell of the wood. From this noisy and chatty family of exceptional women, only the narrator and her mother now remain, raking over the embers of all that was lost in a cold and temporary London apartment.
Dima Wannus is a Syrian writer born in 1982. She studied French literature at Damascus University and the Sorbonne. She has written for newspapers such as Al-Hayat, As-Safir, and The Washington Post and the online outlet Jadaliyya. In 2009, she was selected among the best 39 most talented Arab writers under the age of 40 by the Beirut39 project. She managed the cultural section of the electronic magazine Modon between 2012 and 2014. She currently works as researcher and presenter of the “I’m From There” program on the Syrian Orient TV channel based in Dubai. She has published three novels and a short-story collection.
Quick facts
A família que devorou seus homens
Author: Dima Wannus
Translator: Safa Jubran
ISBN: 978-65-86824-48-3
Graphic design: Cristina Gu
Cover painting: Alice Shintani
176 pages
1st edition, 2023
But it here
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
