“In Perry’s visceral, understated translation…the narrative unfolds with the compulsiveness of a psychological thriller.”

“An agricultural reckoning of near-biblical proportions, Maia and Perry’s brusque novella stalks and swaggers with a grim piety that permeates every page. OF CATTLE AND MEN is a masterwork of visceral drudgery.”

“Graceful and melancholic, enhanced by Zoë Perry’s subtle translation...”

“If Graciliano Ramos describes the old, romantic Brazil of a century ago, Emilio Fraia describes something much more like the country that exists today—the country and people I know... The translation is excellent, by the way.”