Brickmakers (Paperback)

Two young men, Pajaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just after the two main characters have faced off in a knife fight: the culmination of a rivalry that has pitted them against one another since childhood. The present in Brickmakers is a state of impending death, at moments marked by dream-like visions: Marciano is visited by the ghost of his father, who was murdered when he was a teenager, a father he had sworn to avenge, in a promise he could not keep. Pajaro is also visited, in a recurring nightmare, by his abusive father who disappeared years earlier. Narrated with fury and passion, reminiscent of William Faulkner or Katherine Anne Porter, Brickmakers is a rural tragedy in the great American tradition, a story of love, honour and violence where everything is at stake. Reprising the powerful imagery and the filmic landscape of The Wind That Lays Waste, and the threatening atmosphere of Dead Girls, Brickmakers is yet another proof of Almada's extraordinary talent.

General

Imprint:	Charco Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Selva Almada
Translators:	Annie McDermott
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	197
ISBN-13:	978-1-913867-06-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-913867-06-4
Barcode:	9781913867065

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