Pájaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, two young men, are dying in a
deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just a
little after the two main characters have faced off in a knife fight:
the culmination of a rivalry that has pitted them against one another
since childhood. Narrated with fury and
passion, reminiscent of the pace in Faulkner and Hemingway’s prose,
Almada’s second novel is a rural tragedy in the great American
tradition, a story of love and violence where everything is put at
stake. Continuing with the force and imagery of the filmic landscape of The Winds That Lays Waste, and the threatening atmosphere of Dead Girls, Brickmakers is yet another proof of Almada’s talent.