{"title":"Carol Bensimon","description":"Beth Fowler has been a freelance translator since 2009, working from Portuguese and Spanish to English, and has a degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Glasgow. After winning the Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize in 2010, she began to move her focus from commercial to literary translation. Her published translations include Open Door by Iosi Havilio (2011, And Other Stories Publishing), Paradises by Iosi Havilio (2013, And Other Stories Publishing) and Ten Women by Marcela Serrano (2013, Amazon Crossing). She lives near Glasgow, Scotland, with her husband and two children.","products":[{"product_id":"diorama-hardcover","title":"Diorama - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter years spent outrunning her past, Cecília reexamines the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect: a close friend and colleague in congress, Representative Raul Matzenbacher. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany years later, Cecília Matzenbacher, his daughter, migrates from Southern Brazil to California, where she finds work as a taxidermist. Her temperament is ideally suited to this type of restoration and the careful reconstruction of a world frozen in time. But as Cecília confronts her own history and the memories of the investigation surrounding her father, her knack for composition frays. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen news arrives that Raul has suffered a stroke and Cecília's chances to see him again may be limited, her past can no longer stay put, posed like a specimen behind glass. Her story emerges, the past stalking her present, threatening to derail the life she's made for herself in the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn sleek, arresting prose imbued with the suspense-filled edge of a true-crime thriller, \u003ci\u003eDiorama\u003c\/i\u003e cements Carol Bensimon's status as one of the most dynamic voices in contemporary Brazilian literature and demonstrates her narrative gifts at their apex. Fusing police procedural, coming-of-age story, and family drama, \u003ci\u003eDiorama \u003c\/i\u003eis a moving mystery about how we remember what's passed, endangering our notions of what is or isn't still alive inside all of us.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102233235679,"sku":"9780374616038","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tkO61kp4e79780374616038.webp?v=1781079190"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/carol-bensimon.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}