Saga of brutes / Ana Paula Maia ; translated from Brazilian Portuguese by Alexandra Joy Forman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maia, Ana Paula, author.

Contributor:

Forman, Alexandra Joy, translator.

Series:

Brazilian literature series

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Maia, Ana Paula--Translations into English.

Maia, Ana Paula.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

204 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Between dogfights and hog slaughter

The dirty work of others

Carbo animalis.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781628971460

1628971460

OCLC:

943594670