Jerusalem

Goncalo M. Tavares was born in 1970. He has published numerous books since 2001 and has been awarded an impressive number of literary prizes in a very short time, including the Saramago Prize in 2005. Journalist, award-winning fiction author, and former member of the Cuban revolution, Norberto Fuentes has written ten books, including Hemingway in Cuba. His work has been praised by writers such as Italo Calvino, William Kennedy, and Gabriel GarcIa MArquez. He left Cuba in 1994 and now lives in exile in Florida.

"Gonçalo M. Tavares burst onto the Portuguese literary scene armed with an utterly original imagination that broke through all the traditional imaginative boundaries. This, combined with a language entirely his own,mingling bold invention and a mastery of the colloquial, means that it would be no exaggeration to say with no disrespect to the young Portuguese novelists writing today that there is very much a before Gonçalo M. Tavares and an after . . . I've predicted that in thirty years time, if not before, he will win the Nobel Prize and I'm sure my prediction will come true." — Jose Saramago"This is a powerful little book and Dalkey Archive should be commended for bringing it to an anglophone audience." — Toby Lichtig"Yes, it's bleak but it's also daring, thought-provoking and brilliant." — Daniel Hahn