Saga of Brutes draws together three confronting and darkly comic stories: Between Dog Fights and Hog Slaughter, The Dirty Work of Others, and carbo animalis, published in one volume for the first time. Ana Paula Maia s no-holds barred narrative pulls few punches, describing a shocking reality of the lives of the invisible workingmen who, like Atlas, are forced to carry society s burdens. These heroes of vile circumstance coal miners, firemen, garbage collectors, crematorium workers are the soot-covered supermen who risk their lives performing difficult and dangerous work for others....