A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists.
Paulo Honório is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of the decrepit estate São Bernardo, where once upon a time he toiled. He is ruthless in his exploitation of his fellow man, but when he makes a match with a fine young woman, he is surprised to discover that this latest acquisition, as he sees it, may be somewhat harder to handle. It is in Paulo Honório’s own rough-hewn voice that the great Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, often compared to William Faulkner, tells this gritty and dryly funny story of triumph and comeuppance, a tour de force of the writer’s art that is beautifully captured in Padma Viswanathan’s new translation.
- ISBN10 0800869915
- ISBN13 9780800869915
- Publish Date 1 January 1979 (first published September 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Taplinger Publishing Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 156
- Language English