Winner of the Casa de las Am�rica Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jos� Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century.
Enslaved as an adolescent by a rival ethnic group, he was captured by Brazilian slave traders and taken to Brazil as a slave sometim.
The book tells the Story of Rufino or Abuncare, a Yoruba Muslim from the kingdom of Oyo, in present-day Nigeria.
Winner of the Casa de las Am�rica Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jos� Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century