Victor Heringer 
Glória [EPUB ebook] 

The Alencar Costa e Oliveira family talk to each other through inside jokes, often saying the opposite of what they mean, or repeating the same sentence until it acquires new meaning. But they also have a dark inheritance: every member of the family has died of the same cause – acute melancholy.

From the author of The Love of Singular Men comes a family saga like no other. Equal parts postmodern, tender and satirical, Glória follows three brothers – Benjamin, Daniel and Abel – as they do battle with online forums, religious hysteria, the art world of Rio de Janeiro, ants, aunts, love, humiliation and a stammering God.

Circa l’autore

James Young is a translator and writer from Northern Ireland. He is the winner of the 2022 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize, and translated The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer into English. His short stories have appeared in publications including Wasafiri, Short Fiction and The Honest Ulsterman, and been shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the 2019/20 Fish Short Story Prize and the 2021 Bath Short Story Award. He is the editor of the literary journal Short Fiction and runs the Hastings Writers Workshop. He lived in Brazil between 2005 and 2017, working as a teacher, translator and journalist.