Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret A Neves
A modern classic of Brazilian literature recounting the tragedies of rural life in Brazil's arid Backlands. 140 pages
Cover and internal woodcut illustrations by Brazilian artist Djanira
The Land
By Antônio Torres
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Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret A Neves A modern classic of Brazilian literature recounting the tragedies of rural life in Brazil's arid Backlands. 140 pages Cover and internal woodcut illustrations by Brazilian artist Djanira
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" I very much admire the warmth, the irony, the style of The Land, which so brilliantly describes the lives of poor people in a village whose life is leaving it." DORIS LESSING "Fine portraiture...weaves the twisted threads that run between Brazil's opposed cultures" LE MONDE
THE LAND ISBN 0-930523-25-3 Pbk US $7.95 /UK £6.99 Other RI books from this
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