Saga of Brutes

Saga of Brutes draws together three confronting and darkly stories: Between Dog Fights and Pig Slaughter, The Dirty Work of Others, and carbo animalis, published in one volume for the first time. Ana Paula Maias no-holds-barred narrative pulls few punches, describing the shocking reality of the lives of the invisible workingmen who, like Atlas, are forced to carry societys burdens. These heroes of vile circumstancecoal miners, firemen, garbage collectors, crematorium workersare the soot-covered supermen who risk their lives performing difficult and dangerous work for others. But in the end, they, too, amount to nothing but carbo animalisnotwithstanding the impure relation of coal to diamonds. Despite their straightforwardness, Ana Paula Maias stories are filled with great insight and compassion for the lives of the men who live on the edge of a society built with their own sweat.