it offers an indelible glimpses into Brazil's stratified society Sunday Times Sauma convincingly evokes the cacophony of Rio. Teenage love is well documented, but Sauma finds some interesting things to say about it in her debut novel. Beg, borrow or steal a copy Susie Steiner, author of 'Missing, Presumed' An immersive, heartbreaking coming of age story. I devoured this stunning debut by Luiza Sauma. The secret at the center came as a shocking surprise, and the characters were as haunted as I was. Luiza Sauma's first novel, Flesh and Bone and Water, is lush and evocative. Flesh and Bone and Water is a powerful depiction of sexual attraction and long lost loves a haunting weave of Rio, the Amazon and present-day London Ardashir Vakil, award-winning author of 'Beach Boy'

Sauma's writing is sensual and evocative.

I am sure I'll see her name on the spine of many a novel to come Rachel Seiffert, author of the Booker-shortlisted 'The Dark Room' Anita Shreve, New York Times bestselling author of The PilotвЂ™s Wife The reveal, when it comes, is astonishing-sensuous, shocking, and completely earned. Her ability to cut across time and continents and to inhabit the physical and inner life of both a young Brazilian and that same man in middle-age is as dazzling as the novel's plot. Luiza Sauma's debut novel is that rare thing: a completely absorbing, brilliantly-designed, literary work. Sauma, whose style manages to be both spare and rich, is clear-eyed about the social and racial divides in Rio Daily Telegraph In this respect and others, it resembles Julian Barnes's Man Booker-winner, The Sense of an Ending. An arresting debut about memory and trauma.

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