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Title Statement | Of cattle and men / Ana Paula Maia ; translated by Zoë Perry. |
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Author | Maia, Ana Paula |
Additional Contributors | Perry, Zoë |
Maia, Ana Paula | |
Publication | Edinburgh: Charco Press,2023. |
Extent of Item | 99 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781913867492 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06920515 |
General Notes | "First published in Portuguese as De gados e homens by Editora Record (Brazil)"--Copyright page. |
Languages | In English, translated from the Portuguese. |
Summary | "In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor Milo's slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever that may take him. It's important to calm the cows, especially now that they seem so unsettled: they have begun to run in panic into walls and over cliffs. Bronco Gil, the foreman, thinks it's a jaguar or a wild boar. Edgar Wilson has other suspicions. But what is certain is that there is something in this desolate corner of Brazil driving men, and animals, to murder and madness."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Animal welfare--Fiction--Psychological aspects |
Cattle--Fiction--Psychology | |
Human-animal relationships--Fiction | |
Stockyards--Fiction--Brazil | |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |
Novels |