{"product_id":"phenotypes-paperback","title":"Phenotypes - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaulo Scott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Hahn\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking\u003cbr\u003ein our hearts and institutions alike\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFederico and Lourenço are brothers. Their father is black, a famed\u003cbr\u003eforensic pathologist for the police; their mother is white. Federico--distant, \u003cbr\u003eangry, analytical--has light skin, which means he's always been able to avoid\u003cbr\u003ethe worst of the racism Brazilian culture has to offer. He can \"pass\" as white, \u003cbr\u003eand yet, because of this, he has devoted his life to racial justice. Lourenço, \u003cbr\u003eon the other hand, is dark-skinned, easygoing, and well-liked in the brothers'\u003cbr\u003ehometown of Porto Alegre--and has become a father himself. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Federico's fiftieth birthday looms, he joins a ludicrous yet\u003cbr\u003echilling governmental committee in the capital. It is tasked with quelling the\u003cbr\u003eincreasingly violent student protests rocking Brazil by overseeing the design\u003cbr\u003eof new piece of software that will remove the question of race from the hands\u003cbr\u003eof fallible, human, prejudiced college administrators by adjudicating who does\u003cbr\u003eand doesn't warrant admittance as a non-white applicant under new\u003cbr\u003eaffirmative-action quotas. Before he can come to grips with his feelings about\u003cbr\u003ethis initiative, not to mention a budding romance with one of his committee\u003cbr\u003ecolleagues, Federico is called home: his niece has just been arrested at a\u003cbr\u003eprotest carrying a concealed gun. And not just any gun. A stolen police service\u003cbr\u003erevolver that he and Lourenço hid for a\u003cbr\u003efriend decades before. A gun used in a killing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaulo Scott here probes the old wounds of race in Brazil, and in\u003cbr\u003eparticular the loss of a black identity independent from the history of slavery.\u003cbr\u003eExploratory rather than didactic, a story of crime, street-life and regret as\u003cbr\u003emuch as a satirical novel of ideas, \u003ci\u003ePhenotypes \u003c\/i\u003eis a seething masterpiece\u003cbr\u003eof rage and reconciliation. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaulo Scott was born in 1966 in Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil. At university, he was an active member of the student political movement and was also involved in Brazil's re-democratisation process. For ten years he taught law at university in Porto Alegre; he has now published five books of fiction and four of poetry, and is also a translator from English. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 2008 to focus on writing full-time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDaniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with some sixty-something books to his name. His work has won him the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, and he has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Man Booker International Prize (2022)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47251489784057,"sku":"9781913505189","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WURTR1lJRG8xNERWQlRpUUZYckNldz09.webp?v=1768673787","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/phenotypes-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}