The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer

The gripping English debut of the famous and
hugely talented Brazilian writer Victor Heringer,
who died tragically young

In a Rio de Janeiro suburb in the 1970s, a family—the parents, their daughter,
and crippled teenage son Camilo—take in an orphan named Cosme. The
teen boys unexpectedly fall in love, but their intimate world is shattered when
Cosme is killed by a neighbor in a brutal hate crime. Decades later, Camilo
returns to his hometown, still haunted by this violence and the long shadow
of Brazil’s military dictatorship.
A fluid, queer coming-of-age story as well as an incisive and unforgiving
exploration of Brazilian society and politics, Victor Heringer’s moving novel is
worthy of Machado de Assis.
“One of the best novels in recent years.” —ASYMPTOTE
“Heringer had little time to live, but he marked an entire generation of writers
and readers.” —O GLOBO

VICTOR HERINGER (1988–2018) was born in Rio de Janeiro. He was a writer
and multimedia artist, and his first poetry collection, automatógrafo, was published
in 2011, followed by his debut novel Glória, which was awarded the 2013 Prêmio
Jabuti. The Love of Singular Men was published by Companhia das Letras in 2016,
and was shortlisted for the São Paulo Prize for Literature, the Rio Prize for Literature,
and the Oceanos Prize. Heringer was included by Forbes Brazil in their “Under 30
in Literature’” list in 2017. After his death, Companhia das Letras reissued all of his
works and a complete anthology of his poems. JAMES YOUNG is a writer, translator, and editor from Belfast, Ireland. 

PBK NDP 1573
FICTION SEPTEMBER
5 X 8" 144pp
ISBN 978-0-8112-3747-5
EBK 978-0-8112-3748-2
48 CQ TERRITORY C
US $15.95