{"title":"The International Booker Prize 2022 Longlist","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eSee all of the longlisted titles and more from the nominated publishers in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1sMvnKFxiFp55rsJpZSTenqO_aUBBS8Ym\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eour special Booker International catalogue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/h2\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"phenotypes","title":"Phenotypes","description":" Federico\nand Lourenço are brothers. Their father is black, a famed forensic pathologist\nfor the police; their mother is white. Federico – distant, angry, analytical –\nhas light skin, which means he’s always been able to avoid the worst of the\nracism that Brazilian culture has to offer. He can ‘pass’ as white, and yet,\nbecause of this, he has devoted his life to racial justice. Lourenço, on the\nother hand, is dark-skinned, easy-going, and well-liked in the brothers’\nhometown of Porto Alegre – and has become a father himself.  \n\n\n\n As\nFederico’s fiftieth birthday looms, he joins a governmental committee in the\ncapital. It is tasked with quelling the increasingly violent student protests\nrocking Brazil by overseeing the design of a software program that will\nadjudicate the degree to which each university applicant is sufficiently black\nto warrant admittance under new affirmative-action quotas. Before he can come\nto grips with his feelings about this initiative, not to mention a budding\nromance with one of his committee colleagues, Federico is called home: his\nniece has just been arrested at a protest carrying a concealed gun. And not\njust any gun. A stolen police service revolver that Federico and Lourenço hid\nfor a friend decades before. A gun used in a killing. \n\n\n\n Paulo Scott\nhere probes the old wounds of race in Brazil, and in particular the loss of a\nblack identity independent from the history of slavery. Exploratory rather than\ndidactic, a story of crime, street-life and regret as much as a satirical novel\nof ideas, \u003ci\u003ePhenotypes \u003c\/i\u003eis a seething masterpiece of rage and\nreconciliation.  \n\n\n\n\n\n  ","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39584333135950,"sku":"9781913505189","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/original_7722b734-3a29-4956-95e6-6233f1b8e7c8.jpg?v=1752240455"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/in-the-news\/paulo-scott.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}