Saga of Brutes
About this ebook
From the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Author ofOn Earth As It Is Beneath
Saga of Brutes draws together three confronting and darkly comic stories: “Between Dog Fights and Hog Slaughter,” “The Dirty Work of Others,” and “carbo animalis,” published in one volume for the first time. Her protagonists are heroes of vile circumstance—coal miners, firemen, garbage collectors, crematorium workers—soot-covered supermen who risk their lives performing difficult and dangerous work for others. But in the end, they, too, amount to nothing but carbo animalis—notwithstanding the impure relation of coal to diamonds. Despite their straightforwardness, Ana Paula Maia’s stories are filled with great insight and compassion for the lives of the men who live on the edge of a society built with their own sweat.
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About the author
Ana Paula Maia was born in 1977 in the Nova Iguaçu suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has published five novels, among them: Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos, Carvão animal, and De gados e homens. Her books have been published in Serbia, Germany, Argentina, France, and Italy, and are forthcoming in the United States and Spain. Her novel, A guerra dos bastardos was deemed one of the best foreign police-thrillers published in Germany in 2013. She is also a screenwriter.
Alexandra Joy Forman is a writer and translator. She is the author of Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the American Presidents (Les Figues Press); and, she has translated Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s first novel Phloem Flux (2016, Nightboat Books/A Bolha Editora). She lives in Rio de Janeiro.
