João Guimarães Rosa: Vastlands: The Crossing, Gebunden

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"A veritable linguistic tour de force." ---Mario Vargas Llosa

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: The Crossing unfurls in a single, searching monologue, following reformed jagunço Riobaldo from wayward youth to vigilante chief---and a possible encounter with the devil that may have changed his fate. As he rides into battle after battle to impose law and order in the sertão, he must embark on a quest to avenge a beloved leader who has been murdered by one of their own.

At once an epic of war on the plateaus and a profoundly tender love story, Vastlands: The Crossing is charged with longing, and an ode to the land itself; a mystical, near metaphysical, territory, haunted by the living and the dead, that refuses to be tamed. Riobaldo's narration---restless, searching, and full of dazzling wordplay---circles the central mysteries of his life: his obsessive devotion to the enigmatic Diadorim, the ever-looming specter of the devil, and the cost of power and vengeance.

Long thought an impossible task, Entrekin's masterful translation---the first to fully capture both the story and verbal acrobatics of the original in English---recreates Guimarães Rosa's achievement, summoning as if from the birthplace of language a tale that is by turns devastating, mysterious, lush, violent, and beautiful, conjuring the original vitality, music, and endless linguistic invention of the original text for a new generation of readers.