Vastlands: The Crossing: A Novel

“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 mesmerizing new translation by Alison Entrekin, featuring an introduction by Colm Tóibín.

Set in the sertão, a lawless expanse of Brazil’s high inland plateaus, where feuding warlords and their jagunços—hired guns—vie for political dominance, João Guimarães Rosa’s Vastlands: T...