Elizabeth Lowe

In this 2017 novel, translated by Elizabeth Lowe into English as The Last Twist of the Knife, Brazilian writer João Almino establishes a series of difficult hurdles for himself, almost as if purposely creating nearly impossible, Oulipo-like challenges.

-Douglas Messerli, Rain Taxi

https://www.raintaxi.com/the-last-twist-of-the-knife/

Happy People in Tears is an award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds -- the island home of S o Miguel, mainland Portugal, California, New England, and Canada -- experienced and suffered through the obsessive search for happiness of a poor Azorean family of nine.

A story told by a silicone doll and a Japanese salary-man, voices rising out of the cacophony of Tokyo, which the author describes as "walking into a nightmare."