Nowhere People

Besides the advice and invaluable friendship of Isa Pessoa, I am immensely grateful for the partial readings undertaken by Anna Dantes, Antônio Xerxenesky, Beto Brant, Camila Dalbem, Daniel Galera, Fernanda D’Umbra, Maína Mello and Olavo Amaral, and for the extremely pertinent suggestions they made. Likewise the reading of two thirds of the second version out loud (so that I could get a sense of the way it sounded) by the actress Glauce Guima. In addition: the bibliographic references furnished by Ana Elisa de Castro Freitas, Alberto Mussa and Marta Machado, and the advice of Gilson Vargas, Joca Reiners Terron, Ronaldo Bressane and Simone Campos. Finally, to Marcelo Ferroni and André Marinho and their respective editorial teams, as well as to the staff of Petrobras and the Ministry of Culture.

There were two days, when I was still living in the Jardim Botânico neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, when I read the first version of the novel to Marlene Iara Rocha Scott and Elói Rodrigues Scott, ever-present parents; besides the fun of it, there were little suggestions I did not follow, valuable though these suggestions were.

The titles of the first two chapters and the fourth were taken, with the poet’s permission, from Fragma (Expressão Gráfica e Editora Ltd. — Fortaleza, 2007) by Cândido Rolim — my way of paying tribute to this remarkable writer.

Part of the interview given by Catarina to the reporter in the final chapter was adapted, with permission, from the interview I carried out with Thais Petzhold, who with Laura Leiner and Fernanda Chemale ran the Projeto Transeuntes (the Travellers’ Project).

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