The Five Seasons Of Love

In The Five Seasons of Love, acclaimed Brazilian writer Joao Almino presents a compelling and sympathetic portrait of a woman whose life has not turned out as she anticipated, and whose once audacious dreams have been replaced by half-truths, failures and frustration. To fulfill a pact made during her student days, fifty-five-year-old Ana Kauffman plans a party to celebrate the new millennium. As old friends resurface and the countdown to the new century draws near, Anas past undergoes a series of unexpected revisions beginning with the arrival of Berta, the newly minted postoperative persona of Anas former boyfriend Norberto.

Jopo Almino is the author of the acclaimed Brasflia Trilogy, which is comprised of the novels Ideas on Where to Spend the End of the World, Samba-Enredo and The Five Seasons of Love. He obtained his PhD in Paris, where he studied under the philosopher Claude Lefort. An expert on the subject of authoritarianism and democracy in Brazil, his works of political philosophy include The Authoritarian Democrats, The Age of the Present, Secrecy and Information, Once Upon a Time a Constituent Assembly and Still Life: The Political Philosophy of Ecology. He has taught at Berkeley, Stanford, the Autonomous National University of Mexico and the University of Brasflia.Translator Elizabeth Jackson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Wesleyan University. Having been an exchange student in Brazil, she pursued an academic career and obtained her Ph.D. in Portuguese language and literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She is co-translator of Patricia Galvpo's 1933 novel Industrial Park (U Nebraska P, 1993). Most recently, she translated a collection of interviews for Working at Copan published by Cosac & Naify and is co-author of a revised edition of the textbook PortuguOs Bßsico para Estrangeiros under preparation for Yale University Press. She teaches in the Yale Summer Session in Brazil.