St. Bernardo – Graciliano Ramos Meest Verkocht

A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil’s most celebrated novelists. In 1941, a national literary poll in Brazil named Graciliano Ramos one of the country’s ten greatest novelists–one of only four living authors on the list. His reputation has only increased there in the sixty years since his death. Brazilian readers fight over which of his novels is their favorite. Now St. Bernardo, his second-to-last novel, has been freshly translated for North American readers. This gritty, dryly funny book…