Stênio Gardel was born in 1980 in the rural northeast of Brazil. The Words That Remain is his first novel. More about this author > Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. More about this author > A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it decades ago from his youthful passion But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate only to have Raimundo’s father brutally beat his son when he discovered their affair Even after Raimundo succeeds in making a life for himself in the big city he continues to be haunted by this secret missive full of longing from the distant past he at last acquires a true education and the ability to access the letter Exploring Brazil’s little-known hinterland as well its urban haunts and the ultimate triumph of an unforgettable figure on society’s margins The Words That Remain explores the universal power of the written word and language Stênio Gardel’s The Words That Remain is deceptively simple and a compelling examination of intimacy in relationships that invites the reader to experience queer desire and survival through new perspectives Bruna Dantas Lobato’s translation brings the text to life capturing the yearning for social and personal autonomy through fragmented memories Gardel’s novel reminds us how language can be a form of resilience Stenio Gardel Bruna Dantas Lobato accept 2023 Nat Book Award(Trans Stênio Gardel and Bruna Dantas Lobato at the 2023 National Book Awards Finalist Reading This site contains affiliate links. 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Privacy Policy Daniel Dantas has been the bad boy of Brazilian finance for a long time he fueled national outrage with a giant telecom acquisition in the 1990s feuded publicly with his business partners at Citigroup Inc for years and then was caught up in a nationwide corruption scandal in 2008 thrown in jail briefly and his fund forced to temporarily give up some assets Dantas is betting on a big comeback -- as a cattle rancher The Opportunity Fund investment firm he co-founded is said by industry insiders to own more ranch land -- about 500,000 hectares -- than any other company in Brazil and is considering reviving an initial offering for the business Dantas is weighing additional investments into artificial intelligence technology that he qualifies for the Bloomberg Billionaires Index for the first time A new analysis of his finances puts his wealth at $1.8 billion who has long guarded his assets in complex entities With his sister Veronica and longtime partner Dorio Ferman he controls funds that manage a record 26 billion reais ($8 billion) in assets more than double the amount it had when he was arrested a decade ago That includes about 4.5 billion reais the authorities unfroze last July Brazil’s courts annulled the case and freed Dantas of his 10-year sentence About 700 people squat on Opportunity’s land demanding ownership and the fund’s cattle unit is accused of illegally raising cattle on embargoed lands that were illicitly deforested before the fund acquired them He owes his new aggressiveness in part to the fact that he has emerged unscathed in the so-called Carwash corruption scandal that ravaged many other Brazilian tycoons As Latin America’s so-called leftist Pink Tide recedes Dantas no longer faces pressure from the weakened Worker’s Party of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva “Dantas is taking advantage of a frail moment for the worker’s party,” said Sergio Lazzarini a professor at Insper business school in Sao Paulo Dantas hails from an illustrious Brazilian clan of magnates and politicians His great-great grandfather was Cicero Dantas Martins a rancher and nobleman in the state of Bahia a poor region that has long been run by oligarchs After managing money for a wealthy banker in Rio joined with Ferman to found Opportunity Fund in 1994 It eventually grew into a series of funds that buy companies and manage money for individuals and institutions He made his riches and reputation as a financial wheeler-dealer in the wave of privatizations of state-owned companies It’s also where he landed in serial controversies with partners His Opportunity Fund led a consortium including Telecom Italia and Citibank to pick up behemoth Brasil Telecom in the 1990s But Opportunity and Telecom Italia had a falling out followed a few years later by a rift with Citi which would become telecom giant Oi SA in a merger Things got a lot worse that same year in a police operation Dantas was arrested twice and held for a few nights for trying to bribe a police officer to keep his name out of the investigation but Dantas managed to get the case annulled in a series of legal moves He even turned the tables on the police investigator who spearheaded the probe after a stint as a Communist party lawmaker is living in Switzerland and fighting a Brazilian arrest order connected to his two-year sentence for violating secrecy rules A boy watches a landless occupant farmer gather cattle at Agropecuária Santa Bárbara Xinguara SA Maria Bonita farm Brazil’s high court upheld a judge’s decision to annul the Satiagraha case The ruling came after the habeas corpus to release Dantas was criticized by 45 prosecutors as a “shameless affront to Brazil’s democratic institutions’’ and blasted by more than 130 judges for skipping due process rules according to letters published in local press Dantas also went on the offensive against Citi In a federal suit filed in February in New York he alleged that the bank conspired with Brazilian officials to wrest his interest in the telecom company a decade ago He said he was punished for resisting the party’s shakedowns for campaign money Citi said in a motion to dismiss the complaint that Dantas is trying to rehash old allegations that lack evidence Opportunity’s Baratinha mine in Minas Gerais state became operational and is now producing about 2 million tons of iron ore a year cash flow that is financing eight other mining projects including for gold according to a person familiar with the business who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak on the matter Opportunity’s booming cattle enterprise in Para state called Agropecuaria Santa Barbara Xinguara SA now encompasses grazing lands nearly the size of Delaware Two dozen Santa Barbara ranches that were seized years earlier in the Satiagraha case were unfrozen by a judge starting in 2012 it took almost an hour to drive with a Santa Barbara executive across one of the vast ranches where wranglers wore shirts that bear a fund slogan: “attitude of ownership.’’ But the ranches are a reminder of how controversy seems to follow Dantas Members of the Landless Worker’s movement have occupied two Santa Barbara ranches for about nine years and the company executive declined to visit the site to avoid potential confrontations with squatters The squatters are protesting unequal land distribution in Brazil’s vast interior One percent of agricultural land owners control half the farmland A charred house is seen at Agropecuária Santa Bárbara Xinguara SA Cedro Farm in Maraba “There is so much concentrated in the hands of a few like Dantas,” said Pedro Pereira da Silva a former waiter who is one of about 700 people squatting at a Santa Barbara ranch Santa Barbara has been in talks to sell two of the ranches to the government so the squatters can stay is more than double the amount Santa Barbara originally paid about a decade ago but at least it would free the vegetarian cattle king from yet another years-long 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