Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Vastlands: The Crossing

Vastlands: The Crossing

Entrekin, Alison
Guimarães Rosa, João

Hardcover

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $32.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 19, 2027

ISBN10: 1668091585
ISBN13: 9781668091586
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Jan 19 2027
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A veritable linguistic tour de force. --Mario Vargas Llosa

For the first time in over sixty years, one of Latin America's greatest works of literature returns in a mesmerizing new translation by Alison Entrekin, featuring an introduction by Colm Tóibín.

Set in the sertão, a lawless expanse of Brazil's high inland plateaus, where feuding warlords and their jagunços--hired guns--vie for political dominance, João Guimarães Rosa's Vastlands: The Crossing unfurls in a single, searching monologue, following reformed jagunço Riobaldo from wayward youth to vigilante chief--and a possible encounter with the devil that may have changed his fate. As he rides into battle after battle to impose law and order in the sertão, he must embark on a quest to avenge a beloved leader who has been murdered by one of their own.

At once an epic of war on the plateaus and a profoundly tender love story, Vastlands: The Crossing is charged with longing, and an ode to the land itself; a mystical, near metaphysical, territory, haunted by the living and the dead, that refuses to be tamed. Riobaldo's narration--restless, searching, and full of dazzling wordplay--circles the central mysteries of his life: his obsessive devotion to the enigmatic Diadorim, the ever-looming specter of the devil, and the cost of power and vengeance.

Long thought an impossible task, Entrekin's masterful translation--the first to fully capture both the story and verbal acrobatics of the original in English--recreates Guimarães Rosa's achievement, summoning as if from the birthplace of language a tale that is by turns devastating, mysterious, lush, violent, and beautiful, conjuring the original vitality, music, and endless linguistic invention of the original text for a new generation of readers.

Also in

General Fiction

View All