A morte e o meteoro
Death and meteor
by Joca Reiners Terron
Todavia Livros, 2019
120 pages
13,5×20,8 cm
An intricate and surprising literary adventure that combines the death of the Amazon forest with ancestral secrets, anarchist natives and hallucinogenic insects.
The Kaajapukugi is an isolated and mysterious Amazonian tribe that, with the destruction of the Amazon forest, the loss of its land and of all means of living, finds itself facing extinction. Only fifty Kaajapukugi natives remain, and they all are about to disappear forever.
It will be up to the enigmatic Boaventura, an indigenous rights activist and adventurer, to lead the last of the Kaajapukugi to a sanctuary in Mexico as political refugees. The idea provokes controversy, and the world watches attentively the rescue preparations.
When Boaventura suddenly dies, the activist who takes over the rescue plan is left with little knowledge about the tribe. He will find himself in the midst of a macabre conspiracy and a mystery whose tentacles expand both into the past and the future. And he will be the one to tell us this story.
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Joca Reiners Terron (1968) is a poet, writer and graphic designer. He was an editor at the independent Brazilian publishing house Ciência do Acidente and is now a regular contributor to the prestigious newspaper Folha de São Paulo and TV Cultura. Joca Terron has won the Prêmio Machado de Assis 2010 and was shortlisted for the São Paulo Prize for Literature in 2011, 2018, and 2020.
