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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Fernando Meirelles, for asking me for a short story; Flávio Moura, for the strong start; Otávio Costa, for coming on board; Arthur Lavigne, for his stories; Miéle, for the inspiration; my mother, for distinguishing between movement and action; Millôr Fernandes, for having existed; Washington Olivetto and Sérgio Mekler for their partnership; Salim Mattar, for the long road; Carmen Mello, for her love and perseverance; my aunts and uncles from Tijuca, Ilha do Governador, and Catumbi, for their everlasting memories; and Andrucha Waddington, for life.
I would also like to thank Conspiração Filmes and, especially, TV Globo for their support in launching this book.
About the Author and Translator
Fernanda Torres was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1965. She has enjoyed a successful career in theater, cinema, and on television for thirty-five years and has received many awards, including Best Actress at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. She is a columnist for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo and the magazine Veja-Rio and contributes to the magazine Piauí. The End is her first novel.
Alison Entrekin is an acclaimed translator from the Portuguese. Her work includes short fiction and poetry for anthologies and literary magazines, in addition to children’s fiction, biographies, and novels, including City of God by Paulo Lins; The Eternal Son by Cristovão Tezza, shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize; and Budapest by Chico Buarque, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She is a three-time finalist in the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize and PEN Medallion.
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Copyright © 2017 Fernanda Torres
Translation copyright © 2017 Alison Entrekin
First published as Fim
by Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, 2013
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This work is published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil / Fundação Biblioteca Nacional.
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