The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Kara Gnodde • From the award-winning author

• From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

determined to strike a blow for her native Belgium

And right when I’m certain I’ll strangle him

and her girlfriend

Marvelous—that is

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Kara Gnodde • From the award-winning author"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." Dave Eggers, The New Yorker A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas A Penguin Classic The mixed race grandson of ex slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan