🌟 "Bury Your Dead" by Ana Paula Maia

Translated from Portuguese into English by Padma Viswanathan. Wake up everyone, a new translated Ana Paula Maia is here! This is the third of her books that I've read and I liked it as much as her other works. This novels includes a lot in very few pages, and ironically enough I don't know much to say that doesn't make it sound lacking. I love the authors' works because they're about men and animals, about violence, about the worth of a life, and maybe about the meaning(lessness) of the dead stacking up. This novel is set in a desolate area, with scarcity and very few (job) opportunities. Death is everywhere. Emptiness encroaches on the landscape and on meaning itself. Yet maybe it doesn't, at least not fully. The protagonist is an unexpectedly sympathetic man. He only has to do his job: picking up dead animals from the side of the road. But he gets involved in everything happening around him, from transporting sick people to burying the dead. If he doesn't do it, who would? The…

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