Description
| Product ID: | 9781913867492 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Of Cattle and Men |
| Authors: | Author: Ana Paula Maia, Zoe Perry |
| Page Count: | 99 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation, Brazil |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Charco Press |
| Publisher Name: | Charco Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-04-11 |