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, Nobel Prize–winning author of The Feast of the Goat For the first time in over sixty years, one of Latin America’s greatest works of literature returns in a me... SEE MORE