The Land by Antônio Torres, Antonio Torres

150 pages first pub 1976 (view editions)

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This book is ideal for readers who appreciate deeply emotional, character-driven stories exploring universal themes of displacement and disillusionment, told through a unique cultural lens with a reflective, unhurried pace.

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In The Land, Ant nio Torres tells a universal story of tragic homecoming in a style that owes much to the popular cultural forms of his birthplace in Brazil's notoriously poor Backlands (Sert o). He uses snatches of song and prayer, rhyming jokes ...

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