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Author:

Acioli, Socorro.

Title:

The head of the saint / Socorro Acioli ; translation by Daniel Hahn.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

Delacorte Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

181 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Homeless persons--Fiction.
Faith--Fiction.
Prayer--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Anthony,--of Padua, Saint,--1195-1231--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Hahn, Daniel, translator.

Other Titles:

A cabeça do santo. English.

Notes:

"Originally published in Portuguese by Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, Brazil in 2014. Originally published in English in hardcover by Hot Key Books, London, United Kingdom in 2014. Work published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil/ National Library Foundation."

Summary:

Having arrived in Candeia, Brazil, starving and footsore, after walking sixteen days to fulfill his dying mother's last wishes, young Samuel takes up residence in an enormous, broken statue of Saint Anthony and finds that he can hear the prayers of the townspeople, despite his lack of faith.

ISBN:

055353792X
9780553537925

LCCN:

2014048063

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

NEPC953 -- Lake Mills Public Library (Lake Mills)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)