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Of Cattle and Men

by Ana Paula Maia

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 and slaughters another cow. Brutal, unsentimental, and written with surgical precision.

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