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    There's No Point in Dying - Paperback

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    by Francisco Maciel (Author), Bruna Dantas Lobato (Translator)

    "Alluring . . . powerful . . . an indelible depiction of a community on the brink of disaster."--Publishers Weekly


    In this kaleidoscopic novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiro--"in the city of stray bullets, in the land of lost opportunities"--a gang member runs wildly through the streets not knowing he has only seven minutes left to live. Barflies, prostitutes, immigrants, a gay couple, a taxi driver, cops, a mobster, and more populate Francisco Maciel's first book to appear in English. Leaping back and forth across time and spiraling into the surreal, the novel coalesces around a brutal massacre. Maciel's multiracial characters write poetry and discourse on soccer, insects, samba, and climate change. Gritty, unpredictable, and percussive, There's No Point in Dying is translated by National Book Award winner Bruna Dantas Lobato.

    Author Biography

    Francisco Maciel was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1950, the son of a maid and a shopkeeper. He became a manual laborer before age six, when he went to school to escape such work and later managed to enter an elite high school. He studied journalism at university but gave up because he felt "too foolish and unprepared for life," before hitchhiking around South America.
    Bruna Dantas Lobato is a Brazilian writer and literary translator who teaches English and creative writing at Grinnell College. Her translation of The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel won the National Book Award for Translated Literature.

    Number of Pages: 312
    Dimensions: 1.02 x 7.87 x 5.2 IN
    Publication Date: January 13, 2026
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