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Castro, Josue de
by Of Men and Crabs
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0814906672
- ISBN 13
- 9780814906675
- Seller
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About This Item
New York. 1970. Vanguard. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0814906672. Translated from the Portuguese by Susan Hertelendy. 190 pages. hardcover. Jacket design & illustration: ADAMIAK. keywords: Literature Translated Brazil Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In OF MEN AND CRABS, Dr. JosuE de Castro, one of the world's great authorities on hunger, writes a novel about hunger's drama. His poignant story is set in Recife, Brazil, a city of rivers and bridges and mansions, of mud and mangrove and clay shacks. In its marshes live both men and crabs, all obsessed by the craving for food. Here a small boy, João Paulo, discovers the real meaning of hunger-the hunger of the crabs at the water's edge waiting for the current to bring them a scrap; the hunger of the men sitting on the rail of the old quay dribbling with dreams of imaginary meals. Without really understanding, Joäo Paulo lives in hunger's constant presence-a presence that shapes all the behavior of Recife's people. With despotic iron hands, it makes of both men and crabs a mire that is not only Recife's, but belongs as well to two billion others who know its ravaging anguish. OF MEN AND CRABS is a story of and for our time, a totally human story of a universal drama being played daily throughout the world. inventory #28095 ISBN: 0814906672.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28095
- Title
- Castro, Josue de
- Author
- Of Men and Crabs
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0814906672
- ISBN 13
- 9780814906675
- Publisher
- Vanguard Pr
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- This edition first published
- 1970
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