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We're excited to announce that Saudade Toronto is Officially reopened! Come experience our cozy café, browse our curated collection of books, and discover authentic Portuguese products. We can't wait to welcome you back! We're excited to announce that Saudade Toronto is Officially reopened! Come experience our cozy café, browse our curated collection of books, and discover authentic Portuguese products. We can't wait to welcome you back!

SAUDADE TORONTO

Role Play

$22.00

SAUDADE TORONTO

Role Play

$22.00

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Author Clara Drummond & translated to English by Daniel Hahn.

Role Play is a searing satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consciousness awakening.

Vivian is a curator, not just at her gallery gig in Rio de Janeiro, but in every aspect of her life. Her apartment has designer armchairs. Her wallet is Comme des Garçons. Everything is selected and arranged, even her lovers and friends. In Vivian’s world, everything comes in excess, including her own caustic selfawareness. As she informs us, “I’m a misandrist and a misogynist,” but she is fond of gay men, “the one type of human you can properly get along with as equals.”

Role Play examines the superabundances of Brazilian elites— their art, ethics, and monied ambivalence in the face of social inequality, machismo, and violence. As sharp and sparkling as broken champagne flutes, Clara Drummond’s prose is seductively frank and unflinching in its depiction of wealth’s power to warp the self

Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Shipping dimensions: 8" H x 5" W x 0" L
ISBN: 9780374611286
Langauge: English 
Length: 128