- Published: 28 March 2016
- ISBN: 9780141396804
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 64
- RRP: $17.99
A Cup of Rage
- Published: 28 March 2016
- ISBN: 9780141396804
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 64
- RRP: $17.99
If this country were grown-up enough to have a literary Good Sex award, this explosively erotic story from the Brazilian modernist would be a strong contender... A Cup of Rage is a burning coal of a work, superbly translated by Stefan Tobler....The writing is chewy - dense, tough, but well worth the effort
Nick Lezard, The Guardian
'How often, honestly, does the unveiling in translation of a 'forgotten genius' live up to the hype? Well here's one that does: Raduan Nassar
Times Literary Supplement
The book contains much: rich inner monologue, political allusions and a mesmerising pull between dominance and insolence in lovers' quarrels
Sara Wilson, World Literature Today
Raduan Nassar's work is both rare and transcendent. From the conflict between the couple in "A Cup of Rage" to the return of the prodigal son of an immigrant family in "Ancient Tillage", Nassar's narratives are dry, muscular - and when you least expect it, raise flight and achieve uncommonly lyrical plains. His books are like a land manually ploughed in a precise and essential way; there is not a single excessive word in either of them. His language sprouts up with force and expression; every word is an exposed nerve.
Walter Salles
One of the highest points of the Portuguese language of our time
Folha de S. Paulo
Raduan Nassar has created one of the most rare and incandescent books in contemporary Brazilian literature
Leo Gilson Ribeiro, Jornal da Tarde
These are 70 pages full of wonderfully fiery and shrieking prose, to be quaffed off, hot, in one deep draught
Frankfurter Rundschau
A diagram of exciting prose about a loving relationship in his verbal outburst - a great book
Peter Henning, Die Weltwoche