Kardeşim Rüzgâr Kardeşim Deniz

Kardeşim Rüzgâr Kardeşim Deniz follows Chicão, an orphan with Roma blood born in the vast, parched sertão of Brazil's interior, who grows up believing the wind and the sea are his siblings. Fierce and free, he becomes both the lover of the fiery, beautiful Joaninha and the strongest man on his stretch of coast.

Driven from his adoptive family's land and the soil he loves by drought, Chicão is pulled toward the promise of a better life through a string of hard trades, eventually turning to seafaring to make his living. But the wind and sea he has always called kin prove, in the end, to be the forces that undo him.

José Mauro de Vasconcelos writes in the same lyrical, nature-steeped register as his best-known work, portraying the land and people of Brazil's backcountry with deep familiarity — their attachments to home, and the losses that come with leaving it.