Ana Paula Maia On Earth As It Is Beneath review, recensie en informatie roman van de Braziliaanse schrijfster. Op 12 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Charco Press de Engelse vertaling van Assim na Terra como embaixo da Terra, de roman uit 2017 van de uit Brazilië afkomstige schrijfster. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van dit boek verkrijgbaar. Wel is een andere roman De gados e homens in Nederlandse vertaling verschenen met als titel De ziel in het bloed.
Ana Paula Maia On Earth As It Is Beneath review en recensie
- “A fast-paced and impactful book (…) Ana Paula Maia treads her own path, and it’s a brutal one. All the better for us.” (Escotilha)
On Earth As It Is Beneath
- Auteur: Ana Paula Maia (Brazilië)
- Origineel: Assim na Terra como embaixo da Terra (2017)
- Engelse vertaling: Padma Viswanathan
- Uitgever: Charco Press
- Verschijnt: 12 augustus 2025
- Omvang: 112 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 11,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van de Braziliaanse schrijfster Ana Paula Maia
On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down.
But in the prison’s waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every full-moon night, the inmates are released, the warden is armed with rifles, and the hunt begins. Every man plans his escape, not knowing if his end will come at the hands of a familiar face, or from the unknown dangers beyond the prison walls.
Ana Paula Maia has once again delivered a bracing vision of our potential for violence, and our collective failure to account for the consequences of our social and political action, or inaction. No crime is committed out of view for this novelist, and her raw, brutal power enlists us all as witness.
Ana Paula Maia was born in 1977 and raised in a neighborhood on the outskirts in Nova Iguaçu a in the state of Rio de Janeiro, as the daughter of a Portuguese language and literature teacher and a businessman and bar owner. Her childhood was marked both by the violence present in the neighborhood where she lived and by her contact with books, influenced by her mother. Some of het books are translated in English.
