{"product_id":"of-cattle-and-men-ana-paula-maia-9781913867492","title":"Of Cattle and Men","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Author of On Earth As It Is Beneath\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnimals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil. In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor Milo's slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever that may take him. It's important to calm the cows, especially now that they seem so unsettled: they have begun to run in panic into walls and over cliffs. Bronco Gil, the foreman, thinks it's a jaguar or a wild boar. Edgar Wilson has other suspicions. But what is certain is that there is something in this desolate corner of Brazil driving men, and animals, to murder and madness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ana Paula Maia","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51596237013235,"sku":"9781913867492","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781913867492.jpg?v=1790193634","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/of-cattle-and-men-ana-paula-maia-9781913867492","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}