One character in this book has a monstrous head and deformed face and can only walk on all fours, but relishes spending all day hunched over in the shade of blue jasmine trees reading any book or newspaper he can lay hands on. Another character is a Scottish anarchist and phrenologist who succumbs to raping Jurema, and is killed by her betrothed Rufino. Those characters, the Lion of Natuba and Galileo Gall, are joined by an unnamed nearsighted journalist who finds himself trapped. Based partly on a book by Euclides da Cunha, this novel tells of the epileptic general Moreira Cesar and Antonio the Counselor, a shadowy religious cult figure who commands a band of jaguncos in Canudos composed of
One character in this book has a monstrous head and deformed face and can only walk on all fours, but relishes spending all day hunched over in the shade of blue jasmine trees reading any book or newspaper he can lay hands on. Another character is a Scottish anarchist and phrenologist who succumbs to raping Jurema, and is killed by her betrothed Rufino. Those characters, the Lion of Natuba and Galileo Gall, are joined by an unnamed nearsighted journalist who finds himself trapped. Based partly on a book by Euclides da Cunha, this novel tells of the epileptic general Moreira Cesar and Antonio the Counselor, a shadowy religious cult figure who commands a band of jaguncos in Canudos composed of castaways from the Brazilian republic in the 19th century, who are all brutally crushed as part of ► the title conflict. FTP, name this historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa.
One character in this book has a monstrous head and deformed face and can only walk on all fours, but relishes spending all day hunched over in the shade of blue jasmine trees reading any book or newspaper he can lay hands on.
The {War of the End of the World} (La Guerra del fin del mundo)