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  • Location: Sao Paulo

The Tokyo Suite

The Tokyo Suite

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: You never know what goes on behind closed doors….

  • ISBN: 978-1787705371
  • Translator: Bruna Dantas Lobato
  • Genre: Fiction, Translated Fictioin

What you need to know before your trail

A good nanny is hard to find. Fernanda, a busy executive whose marriage is foundering, has a room in her sprawling house redecorated in the style of a tiny luxury hotel room, the Tokyo Suite, to entice her maid Maju to stay.

Still, one morning, Maju walks out the door, slips past the army of nannies in the square, gets into a taxi, and vanishes. She also takes Fernanda’s daughter Cora with her.

Consumed by her own personal and professional crises Fernanda doesn’t realize at first that Cora is missing, and that Maju has kidnapped her, but when she does, she is violently pulled back into reality and the vagaries of her domestic life.

Meanwhile, Maju with Cora in tow, stops in cheap motels and abandoned locales as she makes her way across the Brazilian countryside, carrying out her plan, which will quickly and brutally veer out of control.

Madalosso sets in motion the lives of characters endlessly searching for something―affection, redemption, sex―to free them.  Cora’s disappearance puts the past and the present on a collision course, and ignites desires, resentments, and class tensions. The desperate quest that ensues is a settling of scores with life and the expectations we create for ourselves

Travel Guide

Sao Paulo

The book moves between the city of Sao Paulo and the unusually named town of Mandaguaçu.

“Finally, the road. And not the slums that surround the city like vultures around carion. The proper road that open I love so much, just a skinny cow here and there, the fields, the little houses the quiet of the houses. the earth already changing colors from brown to purple, from purple to red.”

BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Tokyo Suite

Destination/location: Sao Paulo, Mandaguaçu     Author/guide:  Giovana Madalosso   Departure Time: 2000s

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