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SOROMENHO (Castro). TERRA Morta: romance. Rio de Janeiro. 1949. - SOROMENHO (Castro) TERRA Morta: romance . Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Editora da Casa do Estudante do Brasil, 1949. 230 pp.; 195 mm. Dead Land is the first volume of the ”Camaxilo trilogy, ” which also includes Turning Point and The Wound , and marks the second and most significant phase of Castro Soromenho's work. The novel takes place in the decaying village of Camaxilo, in the Angolan Lunda region, once a commercial center during the rubber boom and the scene of the revolt of Chief Caungula and the brutal repression that followed. Whites, blacks, and mixed-race people—ruined merchants, colonial officials, and forced laborers—move in an atmosphere of agony and immobility, in a microcosm where colonialism consumes itself. The book was banned by the Portuguese authorities and could only be published in Portugal in 1961 by Editora Arcádia, even then suffering another immediate restriction. The 1949 Brazilian edition is therefore the first and only free edition of this work for more than a decade, and its access in Portugal depended entirely on the clandestine circulation of copies. First edition. Very rare in Portugal. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate