Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Ramos, Graciliano; Viswanathan, Padma |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 5/5/2020 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.
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