{"product_id":"solitaria-hardcover","title":"Solitaria - Hardcover","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\u003eEliana Alvez Cruz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSolitaria \u003c\/i\u003eis a gem.\" --Saidiya Hartman, author of \u003ci\u003eWayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor fans of Fernanda Melchor and Tove Ditlevsen, a raw, propulsive novel by an award-winning Afro-Brazillian novelist about a Black mother and daughter who work as live-in maids for a rich family in an unnamed Brazilian city, and the tragedy to which they unwittingly bear witness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMabel has been staying in the Golden Plate--the most expensive building on the block, in an unnamed city in Brazil--for almost her entire life. Yet her presence there is merely tolerated: she inhabits a miniscule room with her mother, Eunice, who alongside Mabel provides round-the-clock attention and care for the wealthy family who lives there. As Mabel grows up, her dissatisfaction with the forced smallness of her life becomes difficult to bear, and she is driven to work toward new possibilities for herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEunice does the best that she can--uneducated, and with a daughter and ailing mother both depending solely on her, her life is a series of limitations. She moves through the rooms of the penthouse suite in silent servitude, and though Mabel is ashamed of this invisibility act they've both perfected, the era of slavery is still fresh in the country's consciousness, and Eunice thinks it best not to dwell too hard on such things. But when tragedy strikes, and a little boy dies, Eunice must decide if she can face the indifference and injustices of the ruling class she has spent so long orbiting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold through direct, agile and evocative prose, \u003ci\u003eSolitaria\u003c\/i\u003e is a liberation novel of the most rousing order. Through the book's awareness of space and whose presence is permissible, the world of the Golden Plate unfurls, and an unflinching portrait emerges of modern-day Brazil, its legacies of colonial violence haunting rooms across the country, both big and small.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Rio de Janeiro, Eliana Alves Cruz is a writer and journalist. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eÁgua de Barrela\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Oliveira Silveira award, from Fundação Palmares, in 2015. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eO crime do cais do Valongo\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eNada digo de ti, que em ti não Veja\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), and \u003ci\u003eA vestida: contos\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), which won the Jabuti Award for Best Short Story. \u003ci\u003eSolitaria\u003c\/i\u003e is her most recent novel.\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 1 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379235352678,"sku":"9781662603327","price":34.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/bR-okb7rnw9781662603327.webp?v=1768918184","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/solitaria-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}