by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Translated by R.L. Scott-Buccleuch Original title: Iaiá Garcia
A beautiful tribute to the talents, perceptiveness and intelligence of young women who may lack experience but have a precious kind of optimism and energy, Machado slowly builds up a picture of the attractive young Yayá, a charming and affectionate girl, still at school when we meet her. (more...)
by Graciliano Ramos Translated by R.L. Scott-Buccleuch Original title: Sâo Bernado
Graciliano Ramos was one of a number of North-eastern novelists whose writings in the 1930s and 40s were instrumental in drawing attention to their native region. Paulo Honório, the narrator of São Bernardo (1934), is a ruthless, (more...)
by José Américo de Almeida Translated by R.L. Scott-Buccleuch Original title: A Bagaceira
First published in 1928, Trash represents a landmark in Brazilian literature, as it was the first truly regionalist Brazilian novel of the type which had already appeared in other parts of Latin America. (more...)
