Who Killed the Poet?
Luis de Miranda
Translated by Tina Kover
When Bardo, an architect and poet, dies, his twin brother’s first thought is to suspect the intriguing red-haired Ophelia, Bardo’s love, who has vanished. A chase across northern Europe commences, which is an elevating initiation to a dimension and understanding the brother narrator ignored. Through the voyage, the past reveals its real visage, while a mysterious child guides the characters to an unexpected climax.
Under the guise of a flawless whodunit thriller, Who Killed the Poet? puts forward an original take on crucial themes, such as generational transmission, the politics of self-determination, and what it is to see life as it truly is, without undermining its complexity, diversity and poetry.
A fictional manifesto for the 21st century and a breathtaking translation of the seventh novel of an author at the peak of his art.
About the Author
Luis de Miranda, a novelist and philosopher, was born in 1971, in Portugal, and was raised and has spent most of his life in Paris. He is the author of numerous books, both fiction and non-fiction, which have won him critical praise in France.
About the Translator
Tina Kover is the translator of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including Alexandre Dumas’s Georges, Benoît Peeters’ Hergé: Son of Tintin, and Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental. Her translations have twice been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award and she was the recipient in 2009 of a Literary Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States. She lives in the northeast of England.
Paperback, 130 pages. Release date: October 2, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-194381-342-1
Price: US$14.00
Hardcover, 132 pages. Limited edition of 70 copies.
Release date: October 2, 2017
Price: US$28.00
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