Depois do trovão
After the Thunder
by Micheliny Verunschk
Companhia das Letras 2025
232 pages
14×21 cm
With a masterful command of language, Micheliny Verunschk follows in the tradition of Guimarães Rosa and Maria Valéria Rezende, illuminating the contradictions and humanity of the backlands.
Auati is the son of an Indigenous woman and a Jesuit friar. Taken as a child by his own father, he is forced to participate in serial destruction and to reinvent himself as Joaquim Sertão. What can one do when they’re both victim and perpetrator of such atrocities? To what extent does war brutalize a person and conceal who they truly are? A literary feat by the author awarded the São Paulo São Paulo Literary Prize, the Jabuti, and the Oceanos, After the Thunder investigates the formation of a country marked by violence, set during 17th and 18th century, when the Portuguese Crown financed expeditions into the Brazilian Northeast with the aim of exterminating the peoples of the region.
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Micheliny Verunschk (Recife, 1972) is a Brazilian writer and poet. She completed a master in Literary Criticism at the Pontifical University of São Paulo and a PhD in Communication and Semiotic at the same university. She published the books of poems Geografia Íntima do Deserto (Landy 2003), O Observador e o Nada (Edições Bagaço, 2003) and A Cartografia da Noite (Lumme Editor, 2010), and the novels nossa Teresa (Editora Patuá 2014) and the three novels of her Trilógia infernal (Editora Patuá 2020), a trilogy set during the Brazilian dictatorship. Her novel O Som do Rugido da Onça, won the Jabuti Prize 2022. Her novel Caminhando com os mortos won the Oceanos Prize 2024.
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