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New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaiḿa by Maŕio de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaiḿa and his brothers as they leave their home in the northern Amazon for a whirlwind tour of Brazil, cramming four centuries and a continental expanse into a single mythic plane. Having lost a magic amulet, the hero and his brothers...
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New Directions paperbook ; 1558
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories-spiraling from real events-that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them-and even empathize-despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her...
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