Bücher von Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

"The intellectual invention here, the worldly perception, the ultimate resignation- all give this its special interest for a special market which the earlier book will have indicated." - Kirkus Reviews

Machado de Assis's iconic novel, now considered a progenitor of twentieth-century South American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly modern work.

"Esau and Jacob" is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level, the story of Brazil itself, it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman. Assis presents a study of the doubts and insecurities of the human condition, rather than an heroic bible fable.