Humus
By Raul Brandão
Cover: Senhora entre os Vidros (1926), painting by José Malhoa (1855–1933) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1933)
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A book in fragments by Raul Brandão, part novel and part prose poem, which moves between a provincial town, the dreams of its people and a dialogue with the dead. A hard, strange and much-admired book of Portuguese modernism, with the shabby voice of the Gabiru's papers running through it.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.