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Sign up now for our 18th event in mid-July to discuss City of God alongside author Paulo Lins and translator Alison Entrekin: pintbookclub.com/event-details/…

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Why not try a new kind of PinT this year – one that tastes of Portuguese-language literature in English translation?! At PinT Book Club we host online sessions every 2 months where we discuss interesting texts from all over the Portuguese-speaking world: pintbookclub.com

Paulo Lins was born in "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and grew up in Brazil’s most notorious favela, known to its residents as Cidade de Deus, the City of God. The writer used his personal experiences as the basis of his 1997 novel ‘Cidade de Deus’." Learn more: literaturfestival.com/en/authors/pau…

Join author Paulo Lins and translator Alison Entrekin to discuss City of God at our 18th event in mid-July by registering for free: pintbookclub.com/event-details/…

"It was the first sign of the war to come. The war that imposed its absolute sovereignty and came to claim anyone who didn’t keep their wits about them (...)" City of God (Paulo Lins, tr. Alison Entrekin, Bloomsbury Publishing) is our next book in line: groveatlantic.com/book/city-of-g…

Register to discuss City of God with both author Paulo Lins and translator Alison Entrekin at our next online event in mid-July: pintbookclub.com/event-details/…

City of God, a novel by Brazilian Paulo Lins, was turned into a movie directed by Fernando Meirelles in 2002. Read an interview with the director by Sam Wigley: bfi.org.uk/interviews/cit…

Join us to discuss City of God with author Paulo Lins and translator Alison Entrekin at our next online event in mid-July by registering for free: pintbookclub.com/event-details/…

Sign up now for our 18th session happening on Thursday, the 17th of July 2025 at 7pm (BST). Brazilian author Paulo Lins and translator Alison Entrekin will join us to discuss CITY OF GOD, published in 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing: pintbookclub.com/event-details/…

"Over the past 15 years, Entrekin has translated a large body of work from Portuguese, primarily by Brazilian authors, establishing herself as one of the world’s leading translators from Portuguese." Learn more: sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/transla…

Join translator Alison Entrekin and Brazilian author Paulo Lins to discuss City of God at our next online event in mid-July by registering for free: pintbookclub.com/event-details/…

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Would you like to explore an exciting array of literature from a linguistic community which uniquely spans four continents? You should try PinT – a book club which discusses Portuguese-language literature in English translation! pintbookclub.com

"The author, poet and scriptwriter Paulo Lins was raised in the Cidade de Deus or ‘City of God’ in the 1960s and 1970s, and saw the Rio de Janeiro favela he lived in catapulted to notoriety by his own 1997 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name." nowness.com/story/paulo-li…

Join Brazilian author Paulo Lins and translator Alison Entrekin to discuss City of God at our 18th online event in mid-July by registering for free: pintbookclub.com/event-details/…

"In the past, life was different here in this place where the river, carrying sand, innocent water snake heading for the sea, divided the land on which the children of the Portuguese and the slaves trod." City of God by Paulo Lins is our next book in line: groveatlantic.com/book/city-of-g…

Join us to discuss City of God with both author Paulo Lins and translator Alison Entrekin at our next online session in mid-July by registering for free: pintbookclub.com/event-details/…

Listen to the audio review on City of God (Paulo Lins, tr. Alison Entrekin, Bloomsbury Publishing 2006) by JamBookReviews: youtube.com/watch?v=B0FDA6…

Register to discuss City of God with Brazilian author Paulo Lins and translator Alison Entrekin at our 18th event in mid-July by following: pintbookclub.com/event-details/…