Glória

The Alencar Costa e Oliveira family talk to each other through inside jokes, often saying the opposite of what they mean, or repeating the same sentence until it acquires new meaning. But they also have a dark inheritance: every member of the family has died of the same cause - acute melancholy. From the author of The Love of Singular Men comes a family saga like no other. Equal parts postmodern, tender and satirical, Glória follows three brothers - Benjamin, Daniel and Abel - as they do battle with online forums, religious hysteria, the art world of Rio de Janeiro, ants, aunts, love, humiliation and a stammering God.

Victor Heringer was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1988. His first poetry collection, automatógrafo, was published by 7Letras in 2011, followed by his debut novel, Glória, which was awarded the 2013 Jabuti Prize. His second novel, O amor dos homens avulsos (The Love of Singular Men), was published by Companhia das Letras in 2016, and was shortlisted for the São Paulo Prize for Literature, the Rio Prize for Literature and the Oceanos Prize. In his lifetime, he also published O escritor Victor Heringer (2015), a conceptual book of photographs, contributed a weekly column to the literary magazine Pessoa and translated from English to Portuguese. In 2017 he was selected by Forbes Brasil for inclusion in their 'Forbes under 30' list. Victor Heringer died in 2018, three weeks before his thirtieth birthday. Following his death, Companhia das Letras reissued all of his works and published a collection of his nonfiction writing, Vida desinteressante, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Jabuti Prize. Glória is his second novel to be translated into English, after The Love of Singular Men (2023).