Smashed Steel

In this love story with the efficiency of a detective novel, a photographer comes to a mining town in the Amazon and falls for a young married woman. Even though it causes all sorts of conflict—the least of which are rumors from reporters and neighbors—the photographer decides to pursue this unexpected, forbidden passion. In a struggle between miners and businessmen, he finds a price put on his life. Marçal Aquino, one of the renovators of the Brazilian narrative, gives us an admirable novel of love and crime.