Book, Death and the meteor, A[LS]

A macabre and surprising literary adventure by one of the great names in contemporary Brazilian literature. The Amazon is practically gone. What little remains after decades of annihilation is insufficient to shelter the Kaajapukugi, an isolated and mysterious tribe that now finds itself facing extinction. The precarious information we have about these Indians comes from the equally enigmatic Boaventura, a sertanista who, as far as we know, was the only one to have contact with the tribe, dedicating his life to protecting it from the white man. With the end imminent, Boaventura devises a bold plan: transfer the remaining fifty kaajapukugi to Mexico, where they will be welcomed as political refugees. The idea causes commotion, and the world watches the rescue preparations attentively. However, Boaventura dies in poorly explained circumstances, and it is up to an indigenous colleague to complete the operation. So, overnight, the plan falls to this obscure Mexican official who had been helping the Brazilian sertanista take the kaajapukugi to Mexico. Having recently lost his parents, and with little knowledge about the tribe, he is the one who will narrate this haunting novel by Joca Reiners Terron. Death and the Meteor is an intricate literary adventure, which combines ancient secrets, anarchist Indians, hallucinogenic insects and a bloody journey through the darkest places of the past and future. As the Mexican indigenous man investigates Boaventura's life and the circumstances of his death, the reader will find himself in a maze of false clues and dead ends.