Of Cattle and Men - Ana Paula Maia he is shot dead on

he is shot dead on a street corner

a sense of the dark streets of occupied Paris

Join us for our upper intermediate Japanese conversation class on Monday 13 July at 7pm

Mild Vertigo explores the dizzying reality of being unable to locate oneself in the endless stream of minutiae that forms a lonely life confined to a middle-class home

Superbly translated by Sophie Hughes

Of Cattle and Men - Ana Paula Maia he is shot dead onAnimals 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 Milos slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever