Details

Subject(s)

• Maia, Ana Paula—Translations into English [Browse]

Translator

• Forman, Alexandra Joy [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Short stories [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• short stories [Browse]

Series

Brazilian literature series [More in this series]

Summary note

"Saga of Brutes pulls together three fantastic stories "Between Dog Fights and Pig Slaughter," "The Dirty Work of Others," and "Bone Char," published for the first time as a single volume. Ana Paula Maia's narrative follows the invisible workingmen who carry society's burdens like Atlas. They exist in badness and fraternity, in high heat and intense speed. In the end, these heroes of vile circumstance are the soot-covered supermen who mine the center of the Earth, put out deadly fires, break endless asphalt, collect others' trash, and cremate bodies. But they, too, amount to nothing but carbo animalis--notwithstanding the impure relation of coal to diamonds. Without romanticizing her protagonists, Ana Paula Maia's fictional stories transmit some of the tender qualities of Brazil's brutish men and animals, building, like so many sand castles, a sustainable society on their sweat."-- Provided by publisher

Notes

Original collection of novellas published as two volumes in Portuguese: Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos & Carvão animal.

Language note

Translated from the Brazilian Portugese.

Contents

• Between dogfights and hog slaughter
• The dirty work of others
• Carbo animalis.

ISBN

• 9781628971460 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 1628971460 (paperback : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2016031166

OCLC

943594670

Other standard number

• 40026692541

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