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224 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099470335
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: Not specified
Description
This powerful, award-winning Brazilian novel is reminiscent of Naipaul, Faulkner and Conrad in its exploration of human behaviour on the edges of civilization.In August 1939, a twenty-seven-year old American ethnologist, brilliant and from a solid...
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224 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099470335
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: Not specified
Description
This powerful, award-winning Brazilian novel is reminiscent of Naipaul, Faulkner and Conrad in its exploration of human behaviour on the edges of civilization.In August 1939, a twenty-seven-year old American ethnologist, brilliant and from a solid...