{"id":365830,"date":"2024-05-10T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=365830"},"modified":"2024-05-10T17:43:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:43:37","slug":"the-adventures-of-a-peddler-told-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/the-adventures-of-a-peddler-told-to-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The adventures of a peddler told to children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The desire to recount the story of Arab immigrants to children based on his own memory led Salem Nasser<\/a>, professor of international law at Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Getulio Vargas (FGV), to write O mascate<\/em> [The Peddler], his debut children\u2019s novel. The book features illustrations by Roberta Asse and is set to be released in October by Tabla publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:
\u00c1rabes influenciaram trajet\u00f3ria de brasileiros<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father of three, Nasser (56) had the idea of writing a children\u2019s book when he was telling stories of his family to his own children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are always very interesting adventures, the stories of peddlers exploring, discovering the unknown. I believe they are also full of trepidation,\u201d says Nasser on the Arabs who moved to Brazil and crossed the streets selling goods in houses and stores before establishing their own shops. For his O mascate<\/em>, Nasser drew upon the story of his own father, who came to Brazil in 1954 and is now 95, and mother, now 79. He was the first to come, while she came only in 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

“They are always very interesting adventures, the stories of peddlers.”<\/p>\nSalem Nasser, author of <\/em>O mascate<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted to tell the story of our family, of how we ended up in Brazil, but also an adventure for children, as they want to learn, to feel the fear of the hero, experience the new things he found,\u201d he says. It is this adventure, Nasser says, that makes his stand out from other books portraying the stories of peddlers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel like most of other books written by second- or third-generation descendants explores their own relationship with their parents, their grandparents. It\u2019s not as much about the adventure of the immigrants, their fears, discoveries, difficulties. I found it very interesting,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children\u2019s illustration, quite a different story<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A special part of this book will be illustrations by Roberta Asse, who is herself an Arab descendant and specializes in images and stories for children. She was one of the first people to read O mascate<\/em> apart from Salem\u2019s wife Maria. And it was Maria who introduced him to Asse.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"A
A previous illustration by Roberta Asse: She specializes in children\u2019s literature and helped the author with the text, too<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cAsse tested two illustrations before landing on the one. Then we spoke with publishers. Their feedback was always positive, but something usually prevented it from going forward. Then we talked to Tabla publisher \u2013 it was an obvious choice,\u201d Salem says, explaining that Tabla usually publishes books with topics related to the Arab world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted the book to be very well finished, to live up to the adventure I would tell. It would ideally have to have an institution support, and the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) was an obvious choice, for more than one reason \u2013 not only there was a potential sponsorship but it could leverage the book, give it credibility, the reach of the ABCC could help the book reach more people, too,\u201d he says on the support of the ABCC to O mascate<\/em>\u2019s making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new challenge<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Known for his papers, articles, and television commentaries on various topics related to the Arab world, Salem says that venturing into the world of literature was a challenge he wanted to tackle. The first rough draft of O mascate<\/em> came before the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always flirted with the idea of writing fiction, but of everything I do, this is where I feel less comfortable. I had some drafts shelved. Eventually I decided that this children\u2019s story had to in a children\u2019s language. It sat there waiting for a chance to be submitted to someone. I met Asse during the pandemic. I had the text ready and refined it based on my conversations with her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides Asse and Maria, a Brazilian literary icon had the chance to read the previous text of O mascate<\/em>. \u201cOne of the people who read it and recommend its publication was Milton Hatoum. He is a friend, and always generous. He suggested a small change. I\u2019ll follow his advice,\u201d says Salem on his first steps into the adventure of writing for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supplied<\/div>
Reproduction\/Roberta Asse<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International Law Professor Salem Nasser has diversified his professional practice to write a children\u2019s book on the adventures of his Lebanese father. Launch is set to October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2317,"featured_media":365772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,114],"tags":[39720,9583,2093,49313,10643,9525,4344,32025,4130,27361,16210,34026,49314,18158,32885,22016],"class_list":{"0":"post-365830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-news","9":"tag-adventure","10":"tag-arabs-en","11":"tag-book","12":"tag-childrens-2","13":"tag-criancas-ar","14":"tag-fgv-en","15":"tag-illustration","16":"tag-literatura-en","17":"tag-literature","18":"tag-mascate-en","19":"tag-milton-hatoum-en","20":"tag-milton-hatoum-en-2","21":"tag-roberta-asse-2","22":"tag-salem-nasser-en","23":"tag-tabla-en-2","24":"tag-tabla-en"},"wps_subtitle":"International Law Professor Salem Nasser has diversified his professional practice to write a children\u2019s book on the adventures of his Lebanese father. Launch is set to October.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}