suddenly I should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at
home, I should have stayed at home, for some time, seconds, hours,
I can do nothing, suddenly I stop Violeta is driving along a lonely
stretch of late-night motorway, in the midst of a fearsome storm.
When her tired eyes close for just a second, her car veers off the
road, rolls down a muddy embankment, over and over, and comes to
rest on an empty stretch of sodden ground. And as she lies amid the
wreckage of her car, suspended between this world and the next,
Violeta's life will quite literally flash before her eyes . . .
Scenes from her past overlap with what happened right before the
accident: her upbringing with her distant, critical mother; her
father's mysterious double-life; her troubled relationship with her
daughter; her life on the road as she drives between waxing
product-selling appointments with breaks at motorway service
stations, the abuse from other travellers mocking her size, the
alcohol, the risky encounters with lorry drivers on filthy public
toilet floors... Violeta Among the Stars weaves memories and
feelings as Violeta reflects on her death, her life, her reality
and her dreams. An astonishing portrait of a seemingly
insignificant life, from one of Portugal's greatest living writers.
Translated from the Portuguese by Angel Gurria-Quintana Angel
Gurria-Quintana is a historian, journalist and literary translator
from Spanish and Portuguese. He writes regularly for the books
pages of the Financial Times, and his translations include the
anthology Other Carnivals: Short Stories from Brazil and The
Return, by Dulce Maria Cardoso. With the support of the Creative
Europe Programme of the European Union
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