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 For the first time in over sixty years, one of Latin America’s greatest works of literature returns in a mesmerizing new translation by Alison Entrekin, featuring an ... SEE MORE