Bahia Blues

Yasmina Traboulsi

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Salvador, Bahia - an ill wind is blowing through the old quarter of the city. Winner of the Manuscript Premier Roman Prize for best first French novel

Book Details

Publisher: Arcadia Books
Publish Date: Aug 7th, 2008
Pages: 116
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.00in - 0.50in - 0.30lb
EAN: 9781905147922
Categories: • Literary• Cultural Heritage

About the Author

Yasmina Traboulsi was born in 1975, the daughter of a Brazilian mother and a Lebanese father. Bahia Blues won the Young Francophone Writer's Award in 2002 and the Prix du Premier Roman in 2003. It is her first book to be published in English by Arcadia Books. She lives in London.

Praise for this book

"Traboulsi expertly turns the theme of social deprivation into character-led fiction, and handles tragedy and city life with equal affection." --"Financial Times"

"A new author with an extraordinarily fresh voice." --"The Independent"

""Bahia Blues" is a triumphant debut from a writer of unquestionable talent." --"New Internationalist"

"With enough Grand Guignol to fill a Globo novella, "Bahia Blues" delivers the sensuous eccentricity of an Amado novel cut with "City of God" realism." --"Guardian"

""Bahia Blues" is engrossing--full of passion and flavor. Traboulsi expertly turns the theme of social deprivation into character-led fiction, and handles tragedy and city life with equal affection." --"Financial Times"

"Yasmina Traboulsi's "Bahia Blues" is an eccentric tale about the impact of a stranger on the poor but happy residents of a square in Salvador, Brazil. Traboulsi evokes urban life in Brazil with beautiful prose." --Claire Allfree, "Debut Novels to Try," "Metro"

"A very impressive and engaging first novel and Yasmina Traboulsi is unquestionably a writer to watch." --"Salman Rushdie"