From Another World by Ana Maria Machado, translated by Luisa Baeta, with illustrations by Lúcia Brandão
01 Sep, by in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, South American, Translation
If the writing is a bit stilted and uneven in this middle grade novel, Ana Maria Machado – one of Brazil's preeminent writers for children – has a plausible excuse. Her fictional writer/narrator here is a schoolboy named Mariano who is "only writing – or trying to write –...