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Language: Brazilian Portuguese. "Unusual and provocative, Ana Paula Maia's literature pulses with the intensity of the possible, the real. Her words shape a universal location, where private hells are revealed in fragments of dialogue. In reflections on life and death. Friendship and hypocrisy. In the dull gaze of the beastmen, weighed down by the burden of their own existence. By the weight of hopelessness, the lack of perspective. Their heroes are workers always on the margins of society, trapped in the ambiguity of their own functions, conditioned by their own choices. Marginalized by them . Ernesto Wesley, Ronivon, Edgar Wilson. They are everywhere. What makes them unique is the author's approach. The ability to filter each reality and display, naked and raw, the motivation of amoral but almost lyrical characters. With Lots of blood, violence and style, Ana Paula Maia looks at others and extracts their most human quality from each one, subverting any reprehensible attitude into a redemptive feat. But there is no light in this heroism. There is no darkness either. It is a moment full of ashes, of an intermediate tone, suspended in time. A claustrophobic atmosphere, which involves and hypnotizes the reader. Like a punch in the stomach, Carvão Animal steals the air from us. Penetrates flesh, bones and tendons. And it puts us face to face with a reality that is often devoid of dignity. A reality not calm or sleepy. But it shatters and disfigures. Like the death that surrounds these characters. It's impossible to look away. "