Lit in Translation

Bury Your Dead

Enterre Seus Mortos

Ana Paula Maia (born 1977)

Translated by Padma Viswanathan

English editions

In English

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His work is to collect animals killed on the roads and feed them to the grinder at the depot; his partner Tomás, defrocked by the Church, gives the last rites to crash victims they find dying. One day Edgar discovers a hanged woman among the trees. The police have no vehicle to fetch her, so he secretly drags her back and keeps her on ice, and soon a dead man joins her. Hardened to brutality, the two men nonetheless resolve that these bodies deserve a proper end, one tending souls, the other remains.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
136 pages in the original
Genres
Crime (assigned by AI)
Set in
Brazil
First published
2018 by Companhia das Letras
Author's age
41 when first published
ISBN

9788535930672 (original)

9781917260343 (Charco Press, United Kingdom)