Interesting little family memoir in which Bortoluci describes the recent history of Brazil on the basis of his father's adventures as a truck driver between the 1960s and 2010s. Especially during the early years, being a truck driver in Brazil has very little to do with bringing goods from A to B; it means building highways, repairing mudholes, spending days on river ferries and contributing to many of Brazil's megalomanic projects.

I read this together with the novel Crooked Plow, which has a very different perspective but covers similar Brazilian themes: inequality first and foremost, but also economic development, environmental degradation and deforestation, landgrabbing and violence.

Thanks to Fitzcarraldo and Netgalley for the ARC.