- Published: 1 August 2019
- ISBN: 9780241964880
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $29.99
The Shape of Bones

















- Published: 1 August 2019
- ISBN: 9780241964880
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $29.99
Vividly radiates a sense of unease and menace. I found myself constantly absorbed by it
New Statesman on 'Blood-Drenched Beard'
Coolly seductive, expansively mythic, with an unsettling sense of something indefinably out of joint beneath a veneer of small-town normality. . . . A tensely atmospheric novel [with] a dangerous undertow
Guardian on 'Blood-Drenched Beard'
Publisher's description. A visceral coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence and turbulent desire in the blistering Brazilian suburbs. Taut with the threat of sex and savagery, this is a book about bodies and their limits, about how it feels to be young and what it means to become a man.
Penguin
Daniel Galera understands that violence is mysteriously capable of restoring a person to reality and preparing him to meet his moment of grace. His characters bear life's inevitable weight of guilt and shame, all the while striving to resolve the fearful events of the past
Susanna Moore, author of 'The Life of Objects'