Via apia

R$ 165,90

Sinopse

From one of Brazil’s most acclaimed new literary stars, a twenty-first-century epic set in Rio’s largest favela.Life on the morro, the hill, is good. Five young people―the brothers Washington and Wesley and their friends Douglas, Murilo, and Biel―live close to Rocinha’s main avenue, Via Ápia, just a quick bus ride from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.But the rhythms of their lives stutter and scratch when Brazil’s militarized police storm Rocinha as part of “pacification” efforts ahead of the upcoming World Cup and an influx of international tourists. Via Ápia charts the expectant anxiousness before the police’s invasion, the chaos born from their occupation of the hill, and the aftermath of their silent withdrawal from the favela after one year.Told in heated bursts and marked by the charged chronology of the protagonists’ lives, Geovani Martins’s prodigious debut novel knits together the dramas and dreams of the favela during a peak of turbulent unrest. Like the boom boom kat of Brazilian funk, the unbridled ambitions and resolute friendships of these characters blare throughout Via Ápia, delivering a resonant counternarrative to the notion that violent interventions are the state’s only remedy to the afflictions of crime and poverty. The favela retorts: life, life is the answer.

Participantes

Autor: Geovani Martins

Autor

GEOVANI MARTINS

Geovani Martins (Rio de Janeiro, 1991) é um escritor nascido em Bangu, hoje morador do Vidigal, que atuou como “homem-placa”, atendente de lanchonete, garçom em bufê infantil e em barraca de praia. Não esperava ser escritor, quando foi revelado pela Flup – a Festa Literária das Periferias, em 2013. Ainda era inédito quando esteve no programa principal da Flip em 2015, como parte da mesa “Falando alemão”, com jovens autores de oficinas literárias da favela. O sol na cabeça (2018), que reúne treze contos, é seu livro de estreia, já em negociação com nove países.