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Vermin

During the winter of 2008, hunting for termites in an old monastery in Sao Paulo, an exterminator finds something unusual in a wall: the remains of two partially mummified women who must have been there for around two hundred years. The picture of the women reaches all corners of the earth. From this picture, the author has spun a remarkable tale about the life of an exterminator, the tragic fate of two novices, and the events surrounding the discovery of the remains.

More than anything, this is a novel about various kinds of vermin. And about how the survival of the fittest ultimately defeats, excludes and abolishes that or them who do not fit into ideal notions and prevailing systems.