Alex Hijmans 
Gonta 
Gearrscealta

‘Gonta’ – Wounds. Wounds of the heart, the soul, the body. Wounds that cause act of revenge – and hope. This collection of short stories speaks of the wounds of the people of Bahia.Short stories set in Salvador, the main city of Bahia in Brazil, written in the Irish language by the Dutch writer Alex Hijmans. This book is the result of a multilingual process with drafts prepared in Dutch and English as well as Irish. An English language version of one of the stories was shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize 2012 under the title ‘What’s a Man Without a Brother?’