The War of the End of the World

This novel retells the Canudos war of the 1890s in the backlands of Bahia. The preacher Antonio Conselheiro gathers the poor, the devout, and the hunted into a holy town that refuses the new Brazilian Republic's taxes, census, and civil marriage. A Scottish anarchist, a nearsighted journalist, the Baron de Canabrava, and successive army columns close in on the settlement. Religion, rumour, and republican fear drive the campaigns. The book is a historical novel of millenarian revolt and siege, not a documentary monograph and not a biography of Conselheiro alone.

Bound in brown buckram cover blocked with a black and gold crucifix design by Ben Cain. Brown slipcase.