New York. 1987. March 1987. Avon/Bard. 1st Avon/Bard Printing. Very Good in

New York. 1987. March 1987. Avon/Bard. 1st Avon/Bard Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0380896249. Translated from the Portuguese by Claudia Van der Heuvel. Paperback Original. 132 pages. paperback. keywords: Latin America Brazil Literature Translated Women. DESCRIPTION-THE MYSTERY OF THE SHELL PEOPLE-The women of the Sambaqui, the Shell People, are delicate and lovely. The men, rigid in belief and unyielding. Their culture is cannibalistic, exotic and macabre. Here the intelligent, handsome Karincai chooses the beautiful Malai for his bride-and dares the gods with his rebellion. As history moves his people toward undreamed-of horror, Karincai alone may make the life-and-death difference for his tribe. But for Malai, the future holds a different destiny. her world terribly and irrevocably changed as the Shell People face a final confrontation for survival. A moving, chilling account of genocide that touches the heart of humanity's darker instincts, Sambaqui is real-a society that vanished but never died, its heritage and tragedy our own. inventory #8006.