Homens elegantes
The Elegant Men
by Samir Machado de Machado
Todavia Livros 2025
500 pages
14×21 cm
From the winner of the Jabuti Prize 2024, a picaresque adventure novel full of references to classic literature and queer culture.
It’s 1760. A Brazilian spy and soldier – like a queer version of James Bond – is sent to London with the mission of investigating a network of erotic book smuggling to Brazil. While there, he is dazzled by the luxuries and excesses of European high society. A real swashbuckling adventure, complete with duels and chases on horseback, spiced up by illuminist pornographic literature and the LGBTQI+ universe of the 18th century.
An adventure that winks at the Assassin’s Creed games series and the classic cloak-and-dagger characters from the golden age of cinema, in which – absolute coincidence – the villain is called Earl of Bolsonaro.
Rights available: All countries
Represented in collaboration with MTS Agência
Samir Machado de Machado is a Brazilian writer, he published O professor de Botânica (Não Editora 2008), Quatro soldados (Rocco 2013), Homens elegantes (Rocco 2016) Tupinilândia (Todavia 2018), published in France by Editions Métailié, the novel for children Piratas à vista (FTD Educação 2019). He is also one of the authors of Corpos secos (Alfaguara 2020). He is one of the founders of the publishing house Não Editora.
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