About the author
Ana Paula Maia is a Brazilian novelist and screenwriter whose compact, unsentimental fiction follows people doing punishing work in landscapes marked by waste, extraction, confinement, and death.
Of Cattle and Men and Enter the Wind brought her work to English readers. On Earth as It Is Beneath is set around an isolated penal institution on land carrying the history of slavery.
Where to start
Start with On Earth as It Is Beneath for Maia’s prison novel, or Of Cattle and Men for an earlier examination of labour and violence.
