The end of the world

The End of the World , by award-winning American author Upton Sinclair, returns to bookstores in the celebrated translation by Lúcio Cardoso. The edition also features reproductions of the book's first Brazilian edition, published in 1941 by José Olympio.

Lanny Budd, the protagonist of The World's End , is a young American who has never set foot in the United States. He was born in Switzerland and raised on the French Riviera; his best friends are an Englishman and a German. The truth is that Lanny is a citizen of the world, and he knows it deep down. But it will be over the course of his life, as he witnesses history itself, that Lanny Budd will prove himself a great emissary of humanity in the 20th century.

This is the motto of The World's End , by Upton Sinclair, one of America's most celebrated writers. An investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, Sinclair masterfully and accurately weaves historical facts and personalities into a singular fictional plot. The result is a coming-of-age novel led by Lanny Budd, who, with her curious gaze, introduces readers to the paradoxes and complexities of a century of political, economic, and ethical disputes.

Along with Lanny, we witness the events that will transform the course of history. We'll explore the sentiments of an era that allowed for both the thrills of jazz and the fears of the first aerial bombardments. Lanny Budd witnesses, from a privileged position, the First World War, the behind-the-scenes of the Treaty of Versailles, and other events, while experiencing individual dramas and everyday anxieties—very similar to those of today. The end of the world is a novel for everyone, an opportunity to observe a past that the present still mirrors.

A timeless book like human conflicts themselves, this novel is essential for anyone interested in great historical readings that propose a delve into major world events whose plot, like good fiction, is full of twists and turns worthy of being retold countless times, as forgetting them would be dangerous.

" The End of the World is grandly conceived and balanced. I consider it the most complete and faithful portrait that has ever been or can be made of the most important period of modern history." — H.G. Wells

“Reading The End of the World is like seeing the future in a wonderful mirror.” —Pearl S. Buck

“Upton Sinclair was a rebel with a cause; indeed, with a multitude of them […]. And he promoted them all in his books.” — The New York Times