Duke, the Dog Priest
Domício Coutinho
Translated by Clifford E. Landers
Introduction by George Salis
January 14, 2025
ISBN 9798218474911 Paperback / 396 pages / $22.99

New paperback edition of the 2009 English translation of Coutinho's 1998 novel Duke – O cachorro Padre.

"Here to take his place alongside such outstanding characters of Brazilian fiction as the late Brás Cubas, Dona Flor, Riobaldo, G. H., and Caetana is Duke, the dog-priest or priest-dog, presented [...] in this novel located somewhere between the work of Lima Barreto and Jonathan Swift. We are thankful for this rollicking romp."
Gregory Rabassa

"A caustic satire that indicts with bludgeonlike subtlety humanity's hypocrisies."
— Joseph Dewey, Review of Contemporary Fiction

"Delightfully irreverent."
— George Salis, The Collidescope