A small, furious masterpiece of dominance and submission.
A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in Brazil - spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults and scorching cruelty, their sexual adventure turns into a savage power game between two warring egos. This intense, erotic masterpiece - written by one of Brazil's most highly regarded modernists - explores alienation, arrogance, machismo meltdown, the desire to dominate, and the wish to be dominated.
Genre: Literary Fiction
A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in Brazil - spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults and scorching cruelty, their sexual adventure turns into a savage power game between two warring egos. This intense, erotic masterpiece - written by one of Brazil's most highly regarded modernists - explores alienation, arrogance, machismo meltdown, the desire to dominate, and the wish to be dominated.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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