Description: The story of a nameless figure who refers to himself only as a "man-tree."
Review Quotes: The Front, the haunting debut novel from one of Brazil's major poets, Edimilson de Almeida Pereira, is an existential tour de force. Redolent of Clarice Lispector in style and of Ralph Ellison in theme, yet written in Pereira's distilled, direct prose and translated with consummate skill by Johnny Lorenz. The Front guides us along the path of life--and lives--on the periphery of our global, market-driven contemporary society, unseen yet resistant, ignored yet defiant, and shares a vision and voice we should and must pay close attention to.--John Keene