
A potent novel about scars left by poverty, illiteracy, and homophobia, opening in Brazil's rural hinterland and moving to its metropolitan center.
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A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome C cero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read...

A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome C cero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read...
