De espaços abandonados
Abandoned Places
by Luisa Geisler
Alfaguara, 2018
416 pages
15×23 cm
A polyphonic book about looking for someone and getting lost in the process. Luisa Geisler builds a mosaic of engaging characters and succeeds in challenging the boundaries of the pages with an intriguing melange of styles.
When her mother, who loved abandoned spaces and suffered from bipolar disorder, disappears without a trace, Maria Alice knows what hints she’ll need to look for… and follow. An uncertain quest that will bring her to become the praise of her own desire to get lost.
A post on a blog about urban exploration sets the start of her journey in Dublin, where she ends up living with Brazilians who have decided to go abroad, but have soon lost their way. Here we’ll meet a great set of charachters, masterfully described in few lines by Luisa Geisler: the seeker lost in his search, the one who doesn’t want to find anyone familiar, the one who wants to protect those he thinks are in need of protection, while they don’t need nor appreciate his effort.
Mixing letters, excerpts from books, writing manuals, testimonials and lost archives on computers, Luisa Geisler tells the life of a series of Brazilians self-exiled in Ireland. All of them left in search for a better future, none of them really knows what they’re looking for.
This book isn’t just about a woman’s journey in search of her mother. It’s a story of lost characters, who sought a better life in new countries, but ended up finding old problems in themselves. People who heard stories about the myth of the Irish fortune for years, but found only the constant struggle between taking the easy way “out of life” or face it head on.
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Luisa Geisler was born in Canoas, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, in 1991. She’s the author of Contos de Mentira (Tall Tales, 2011) and Quiçá (Maybe, 2012), both of which were awarded the Sesc Prize for Literature and shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize. Quiçá has also been shortlisted for the Machado de Assis Prize and the São Paulo Prize for Literature, and has been translated into Spanish. In 2012, the UK literary magazine Granta chose Luisa as one of the twenty best young Brazilian novelists writing today. More recently, Luisa was invited to take part in the Writers Omi residency program at the Ledig House in New York. Some of her short fiction works and other writings have been published in UK, Germany, France, Spain and the United States.
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