War Of The End Of The World

The Nobel Prize–winning author’s classic novel of civil war in nineteenth-century Brazil: “A modern tragedy on the grand scale . . . As dark as spilled blood” (Salman Rushdie The New Republic).. Deep within the remote backlands of Brazil lies Canudos home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes bandits beggars and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money no taxation no marriage no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form a state with all the potential for a true libertarian paradise—and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost.. In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel Mario Vargas Llosa offers his fictionalized vision of the story of Canudos inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American revolutionary history an unforgettable story of passion violence and the devastation that follows from fanaticism.