Brickmakers by Selva Almada #foliosociety with fascinating background notes and

with fascinating background notes and a long list of sources and further reading included

economical prose

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Brickmakers by Selva Almada #foliosociety with fascinating background notes andAuthor of International Booker Finalist Not a River Two young men, Pjaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just after the two main characters have faced off in a knife fight: the culmination of a rivalry that has pitted them against one another since childhood. The present in Brickmakers is a state of impending death, at moments marked by dream like visions: Marciano is visited by