A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father - Paperback

by Gon?alo M. Tavares (Author), Daniel Hahn (Translator)

Amid a landscape of rubble, skeletal figures, and helplessness in Europe post-World War II, a girl and a man wander among the ruins.

Hanna, a 12-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome, is looking for her father. Marius, her companion, seems to be hiding from something. Aided by a simple instruction card, Hanna explores what it is to be human, as Tavares creates an abstract yet touching portrait of the true victims of war.

Author Biography

Gon?alo M. Tavares was born in Luanda in 1970 and teaches Theory of Science in Lisbon. His work has already received an impressive amount of literary awards, among them the Prix Litt?raire Europ?en, the Prix du Meilleur Livre ?tranger 2010, which has so far been given to authors like Salman Rushdie, John Updike, and Philip Roth. Other awards inculde the Saramago Prize, the Pr?mio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em L?ngua Portuguesa, the SPA Author's Prize, the Pr?mio Melhor Narrativa Ficcional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores and the Pr?mio Liter?rio Funda??o In?s de Castro.