Simple Art of Killing a Woman

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From bestselling Brazilian crime novelist Patrcia Melo comes a masterful thriller that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humorous and harrowing.

To escape an overprotective family and an abusive partner, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about an epidemic of violence against women that seems beyond comprehension.

What she finds in the jungle is not only relentless oppression, but a deep longing for answers to an unsolved crime from her past. Through the ritual use of ayahuasca, she meets a chorus of warrior women on a path of revenge and recovers the painful details of her mother's death.

The Simple Art of Killing a Woman is a psychological trip with a twist. It's about the strength of individuals in the face of overwhelming violence, the problem of femicide in Brazil, and the haunting of a cold case.

'A deeply affecting novel illuminating the costs of being a woman in a dangerous, misogynistic society.' - Kirkus Reviews

'The Simple Art of Killing a Woman vibrates with rage at femicide and glows with hallucinatory images of jaguars and Amazons.' - Bcher am Sonntag

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781911648758
Published: April 2024

Number of pages: 272
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: The Indigo Press