Winner of the 2017 Best Translated Book Award
Longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award
“The novel’s edgy and frank depictions of gender fluidity and sexual orientation begs comparisons to Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer while its themes of a great family in decay recalls the best work of William Faulkner.” —World Literature Today
“Long considered one of the most important works of twentieth-century Brazilian literature, Chronicle of the Murdered House finally became available in English in 2017.
Set in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the novel relates the dissolution of a once proud patriarchal family that blames its ruin on the marriage of its youngest son, Valdo, to Nina—a vibrant, unpredictable, and incendiary young woman whose very existence seems to depend on the destruction of the household.
This family's downfall, peppered by stories of decadence, adultery, incest, and madness, is related through a variety of narrative devices, including letters, diaries, memoirs, statements, confessions, and accounts penned by the various characters.”