The Tokyo Suite
Translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato
English translation 2025 · debut
Reception
- 2025 NPR, books We Love 2025
Fiction.
About the book
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It’s a seemingly ordinary morning when Maju, a nanny, boards a bus with Cora, the young girl she’s been caring for, and disappears. The abduction, an act as impulsive as it is extreme, sets off a series of events that will force each character to confront their deepest fears and desires.
Fernanda, Cora’s mother, is a successful executive who is so engulfed in her own personal crisis that she initially fails to notice her daughter’s disappearance. Her marriage is strained, and she finds solace in an affair, distancing herself further from her family. Meanwhile, her husband, overwhelmed by the complexities of their domestic life, remains emotionally detached. As Maju navigates the streets of São Paulo with Cora, the “white army” of nannies, a term coined by Fernanda, seems to watch her every move, heightening her sense of paranoia and urgency.
Also translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato
The Words That Remain
Stênio Gardel
Catalogue record
- ISBN
- 978-1-60945-980-2
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- ISBN
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- 978-1-60945-980-2
- Author
- Madalosso, Giovana, 1975–
- Statement
- The Tokyo Suite / Giovana Madalosso ; translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato.
- Records
- Open Library
- Brazil
- Love and romance