Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century
Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth:
prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It
is a place where history and civilization have been wiped
away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no
census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit
in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a
true, libertarian paradise--and one the Brazilian government
is determined to crush at any cost.
In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas
Llosa tells his own version of the real story of Canudos,
inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive,
cataclysmic battle between the society and government
troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American
revolutionary history, an unforgettable story of passion,
violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism.
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