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  <title><![CDATA[Vidas Secas]]></title>
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  <default_description>Una familia expulsada de su tierra por la sequia y la miseria: la historia de la familia Fabiano y su peregrinaje por la supervivencia sugiere un regionalismo sin tierra, donde las extensas descripciones del paisaje son reemplazadas por el drama humano y sus repercusiones politicas. De un realismo critico desafiante, Vidas secas es tambien una novela que reflexiona sobre el rol del escritor y de la literatura ante las miserias del mundo. Graciliano Ramos es uno de los clasicos de la literatura brasilena, ocupando en el siglo veinte lugar comparable al de Machado de Assis en el diecinueve.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1938</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Graciliano Ramos]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Barren Lives (1938) covers a brief period of time in the life of a family as they try to eke out a living as farm hands on a ranch in a small village. Thematically the book reminds me of The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck except that the family is more hopeful in Barren Lives because they ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6517907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Livro ao melhor estilo graciliano ramos, que mostra a realidade do sertão nordestino no Brasil. Típico livro de escola e que cai no vestibular, porém é bom e gostoso de ler<br/><br/>nota: 7,5]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Incrível, profundo. Para ler com uma jarra de água ao lado, tamanho o realismo.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first real good book I ever read in my life. Middle school! This is fantastic.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Too tired of the hot yellow sand.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Esse livro é essencial para aqueles que estudam literatura latino americana. Graciliano Ramos é ícone da literatura brasileira. Para mim, que sou paulistana, foi um pouco dificil entender o linguagem nordestina e simples do texto. A seca nordestina e as pessoas que lá vivem são protagonistas de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27342607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eu gostei deste livro.  As detalhas foram bem-feitos e a imagem foi boa.  Eu nao entendi um pouco da linguagem, pois, eh escrito com vocabulario nordeste e aprendi portugues no sul, mas alem disso, foi boa a leitura.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Only brazilian people will understand this brilliant play/poetry. ]]></body>
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