São Bernardo by Ramos, Graciliano

S縊 Bernardo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781681373850)

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Format: Paperback
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São Bernardo by Ramos, Graciliano

S縊 Bernardo

$15.95
São Bernardo by Ramos, Graciliano

S縊 Bernardo

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Graciliano Ramos
ISBN-10: 1681373858
ISBN-13: 9781681373850
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2020
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d
By Graciliano Ramos
By Graciliano Ramos
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Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) was a writer, politician, and journalist. He spent most of his life in Palmeira dos ﾍndios, in northeast Brazil, where he owned a general store and served as the mayor. In 1936, Ramos was arrested and imprisoned on a penal island. He was most likely suspected of being a Communist. After his release from prison, he published his most famous novel, Barren Lives.

Padma Viswanathan's debut novel, The Toss of a Lemon, has been published in eight countries and was a finalist for several prizes. Her second novel, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, was a national bestseller in Canada and was short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her short fiction and nonfiction work has been published in several outlets, including Granta, the Boston Review, Elle (Canada), and Guernica. She teaches creative writing at the University of Arkansas.

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