
Born in Brazil, novelist Dom cio Coutinho immigrated to the United States in 1959. His first novel, Duke, the Dog Priest, comically explores Nova Eboracense, Brazilian New York, with its dazzling mix of priests, brothers, nuns, students, church workers, parishioners,...

Noted literary translator Gregory Rabassa (Gabriel Garc a M rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Julio Cort zar's Hopscotch, etc.) had this to say about Dom cio Coutinho's debut novel, Duke, the Dog Priest: "Here to take his place alongside...