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I'm not going to rate this because it's obviously one of the great novels of the 20th century but I didn’t find it an enjoyable reading experience at all. It's a historical novel, the story of a civil war that took place in north-east Brazil at the end of the 19th century. A religious cult formed around a man called 'the Counselor' or Antonio Conselheiro, becoming a revolutionary settlement of around 30,000 people who armed and defended themselves when the army came to try to break up the settle
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This is an epic novel set in the backlands of Brazil decades ago. It's rather overlong in my opinion,But has an excellent story and well-developed interesting characters. It's unusual in that it has no single main character- the main character seems to shift as the story progresses and at times there really is no main character.
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