The Last Twist of the Knife

by João Almino

After a quarrel, an ageing lawyer leaves his wife and travels from Bras?lia to the dry, lawless backlands of Brazil's northeastern plateau, where he grew up. He has vague plans to start a new life, to buy a ranch and farm cotton, but unresolved childhood obsessions, fantasies, traumas resurface, threatening to overwhelm his very sense of identity. Consumed with thoughts of revenge against the man who murdered his father when he was only two, he discovers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943150621
• ISBN13: 9781943150625
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"