Lit in Translation

Brickmakers

Ladrilleros

Selva Almada (born 1973)

Translated by Annie McDermott

English editions

In English

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In a small town in the Litoral region of Argentina, two families have hated each other for years, though they are equally poor, violent and narrow-minded. Their sons, Marciano Miranda and Pajarito Tamai, inherit the feud and copy the men who raised them in their fights, their women and their grudges. Yet desire refuses to follow the script. Shifting back and forth between the present and remembered scenes, the novel slowly explains the moment shown on its first page and exposes the codes of a world of men without either excusing or judging them.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
232 pages in the original
Genres
Family, Love (assigned by AI)
Set in
Argentina
First published
2013 by Mardulce
Author's age
40 when first published
ISBN

9789872905408 (original)

9781644450697 (Graywolf Press, United States)

9781913867065 (Charco Press, United Kingdom)