Springtime in the Bones (Primavera nos ossos), by Állex Leilla and translated by Amanda Sarasien, is an intense and unsettling novel that delves into the most complex zones of desire, trauma, and revenge. Set in Salvador, the story follows Luísa, a successful advertising executive whose emotional world remains tied to an impossible love while she grapples with the aftermath of a rape that reshapes the course of her life. With poetic, fragmentary prose and a deliberately disorienting chronology, the novel immerses readers in its protagonist’s subjectivity without ...