Itamar Vieira Júnior, one of the most important Brazilian writers today, has a new novel. save the fire recovers some of the topics introduced in crooked plow, the novel with which he won the Leya Award in 2018, and also the action space, the rural area of the state of Bahia. But despite the commonalities, save the fire is in many respects different from crooked plowas the writer explained in an interview with the Observer, that is, in the way members of the community interact with each other and racism interferes in their lives.
Vieira Júnior, an author deeply concerned and attentive to the development of the history of his country, Brazil, found the origins of the place, built in the shadow of an old convent from the 16th century. For the Observer, the writer, who passed through Lisbon to present his second novel, he highlighted how the Catholic Church, one of the main characters in his book, influenced the way of life of local populations and how that influence is still felt in Brazil. of today, a country that still fights for democracy.
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Source: Observadora
