This World Does Not Belong to Us

Lucas was just a child when his father sold him to another farmer as a laborer. Years later, Lucas returns, full of resentment and burning for revenge.After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he was expelled from as a child. The garden has been conquered by weeds, which blanket his mother s beloved flowerbeds and his father s grave alike. A lot has changed since Eloy and Felisberto were invited into the family home to work for Lucas s father, long ago. The two hulking strangers have brought the land and everyone on it under their control and removed nuisances like Lucas. Now everything rots. Lucas, a hardened young man, turns to a world that thrives in dirt and darkness: the world of insects. In raw, lyrical prose, Garcia Freire portrays a world brought low by human greed, while hinting at glimmers of hope in the unlikeliest places.