Alex Hijmans

Gonta (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Gonta' - Wounds. Wounds of the heart, the soul, the body. Wounds that cause act of revenge - and hope. This collection of short stories speaks of the wounds of the people of Bahia.

Short stories set in Salvador, the main city of Bahia in Brazil, written in the Irish language by the Dutch writer Alex Hijmans.

This book is the result of a multilingual process with drafts prepared in Dutch and English as well as Irish. An English language version of one of the stories was shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize 2012 under the title 'What's a Man Without a Brother?'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cois Life
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2012
• Irisch
• ISBN-13: 9781908057587
• Artikelnr.: 53077242

Autorenporträt

Alex Hijmans was born in the Netherlands. He moved to Ireland when he was twenty years old and learned the Irish language. He then spent a twelve year period in Galway working in various Irish-language media before moving to Brazil where he works as an international correspondent, living in Salvador, the capital of Bahia, in the north-east of the country. Alex has also written a novel 'Aiséirí' (published by Cois Life in 2011) and a non-fiction work about a disadvantaged suburb in Salvador city 'Favela' (also published by Cois Life, 2009).