São Bernardo

A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists.

Paulo Hon rio is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of the decrepit estate S o 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 Hon rio'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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 05/05/2020
ISBN: 9781681373850
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d