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In Banzeiro Okoto, Eliane Brum casts our survival as a species as being on the line with what happens in the Amazon, its forests, lands, rivers, and people. She does so with fierce intensity, putting her whole being into the heat and heart of it. She takes apart the forces of whiteness (including her own), the economic and political structures that colonize, exploit, extract, and enslave. Those same forces threaten and kill those acting against them, and those speaking and writing truth to power--which is exactly what Brum has been doing, and what she does now with this brave, beautiful, and necessary new book. --Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company

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Eliane Brum is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, writer, and documentarist. Her first work of nonfiction to be translated into English, The Collector of Leftover Souls, was long-listed for the National Book Award. She lives in Altamira, in the Amazon. Diane Whitty has translated over a dozen major books from the Portuguese, including The Collector of Leftover Souls by Eliane Brum. She spent twenty-three years in Brazil and now lives in Wisconsin with her husband.

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