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A Tale of Two Women: Giovana Madalosso’s “The Tokyo Suite,” Translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato

“The Tokyo Suite” by Brazilian author Giovana Madalosso, translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato, is an ambitious novel. It explores and questions gender roles and expectations in marriage and caregiving, the very structure of traditional marriages, the demands and complexities of motherhood, the contradictions of life in the big city, and the inequities inherent in capitalism.