• Biblioteca Demonstrativa de Brasília BDB, Brazil

Publisher of Nominated Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 0747573727

Jealousy - overpowering, beyond the reach of reason, Othello-like - is the focus of this latest work by one of Brazil's most acclaimed writers. A successful and renowned conductor of a major symphony orchestra in São Paulo is married to a beautiful and talented violinist, close to thirty years his junior. But his happiness is undermined by two fears: that he will never wholly share her life because, unlike her, he is not Jewish; and that she is unfaithful to him. He is haunted by a voice that gnaws at his trust, his love, and, ultimately, his sanity.

Black Waltz opens a fascinating and harrowing window into a mind bordering on paranoia and psychosis. It is a compelling portrait of the disintegration of a marriage and a telling insight into the self-destructive passions that engulf it.

Patrícia Melo is a novelist, scriptwriter and playwright. In 1999 Time magazine included her among their fifty 'Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium'. She is the author of three previous novels, In Praise of Lies, The Killer and Inferno.