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Joca Reiners Terron in conversation with Valentina Rodríguez Ayola

Death and the meteor

Cartagena 2026, 

The Brazilian writer, publisher and translator Joca Reiners Terron has written the novel O morte e o meteoro. In it, the last members of the Kaajapukugi tribe, barely surviving in the heart of the Amazon, are sent to Oaxaca, in Mexico, as political refugees. Just days before they arrive, the anthropologist responsible for the transfer dies, and then begins a story full of mystery, overflowing imagination and adventures. In conversation with Valentina Rodríguez Ayola.