João Guimarães Rosa (born 27 June 1908, Cordisburgo, Brazil; died 19 November 1967, Rio de Janeiro) was a novelist and short-story writer whose innovative prose style, derived from the oral tradition of the sertão (hinterland of Brazil), revitalised Brazilian fiction in the mid-twentieth century.
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“A veritable linguistic tour de force.” —Mario Vargas Llosa One of the greatest works of Latin American literature ever written and an epic story of honor and revenge set in Brazil’s high inland plateaus—now in a revelato... SEE MORE