{"product_id":"maria-dos-canos-serrados","title":"Maria of the Sawed Pipes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA shot fired at point-blank range. Published in 2007, the book follows the escape of an unlikely couple: Maria and her partner in crime – through a Portugal that rarely appears on postcards. There is no fado or saudade here: there is gasoline, violence, sex, black humour. Maria, a contemporary anti-heroine, trades the quiet fate of many “Marias” for risk, excess and disorder. A literary pulp road movie in which the action never lets up and the language delights in flouting every convention. Over-the-top, ironic, provocative, it burns like a fuse and begs to be read aloud, with laughter. Too absurd to be taken seriously. Seriously? Have you really looked around?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRicardo Adolfo (b. 1974)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003egrew up in Lisbon, but has lived between Amsterdam and Tokyo, collecting geographies that colour his writing. He is a novelist, screenwriter and advertising copywriter, and in everything he does you can see the same impulse: to provoke, to dismantle discourses, to expose the ridiculous where it is least expected. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn cinema, we owe him \"São Jorge\". On television, we owe him \"Sara\". And when I say \"we owe him\", I mean it literally. We should make him a transfer to thank him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51865878659338,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/OIP_197a0d1c-1561-4f0a-af06-983552f3f3dd.webp?v=1759145581","url":"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/en\/products\/maria-dos-canos-serrados","provider":"Maldita Livraria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}