There's No Point in Dying by Maciel, Francisco
There's No Point in Dying by Maciel, Francisco

There's No Point in Dying

"Alluring . . . powerful . . . an indelible depiction of a community on the brink...
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Author: Francisco Maciel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: $37.90
There's No Point in Dying by Maciel, Francisco

There's No Point in Dying

$67.99 $37.90
There's No Point in Dying by Maciel, Francisco

There's No Point in Dying

$67.99 $37.90
Author: Francisco Maciel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
"Alluring . . . powerful . . . an indelible depiction of a community on the brink of disaster."--Publishers Weekly


In this kaleidoscopic novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiro--"in the city of stray bullets, in the land of lost opportunities"--a gang member runs wildly through the streets not knowing he has only seven minutes left to live. Barflies, prostitutes, immigrants, a gay couple, a taxi driver, cops, a mobster, and more populate Francisco Maciel's first book to appear in English. Leaping back and forth across time and spiraling into the surreal, the novel coalesces around a brutal massacre. Maciel's multiracial characters write poetry and discourse on soccer, insects, samba, and climate change. Gritty, unpredictable, and percussive, There's No Point in Dying is translated by National Book Award winner Bruna Dantas Lobato.



Author: Francisco Maciel
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: 01/13/2026
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.87h x 5.20w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781954404397


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/03/2025
Foreword 12/18/2025

About the Author
Francisco Maciel was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1950, the son of a maid and a shopkeeper. He became a manual laborer before age six, when he went to school to escape such work and later managed to enter an elite high school. He studied journalism at university but gave up because he felt "too foolish and unprepared for life," before hitchhiking around South America.
Bruna Dantas Lobato is a Brazilian writer and literary translator who teaches English and creative writing at Grinnell College. Her translation of The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel won the National Book Award for Translated Literature.
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