The attack O ataque Ruffato, Luiz author Nielson, Rex P. Brigham Young University translator articles fiction 2021 2021-07 eng por pp. 162-174 born digital In lieu of an abstract, this is an excerpt from the first page: "In the summer of 1972, my parents had the opportunity to shake the hand of happiness. In January, while dark clouds over on the side by Barbacena startled the riverbanks, fearful of the treacherous waters of the Pomba River, we crammed Mr. Zé Pinto’s little International delivery truck with all our stuff. Finally, our small four-room house over in Paradise was ready. Two years spent in that fluster, from purchasing the land to connecting the power lines; two years of thermoses of coffee for the mason, for his assistant, for the well-digger, for his helper, for the electrician, culminating with the bags of bread with tomato sauce and onion and the liters of Kool-Aid on the Sunday scheduled for mixing the cement. My dad, who had supervised step by step the construction, from pouring the concrete foundation to the installation of the toilets, from positioning the asbestos sheets over the porch to applying the sealing at the feet of the basin for washing clothes, was beside himself with joy. He was hugging everyone, people he knew or people he had never seen before; he talked loudly, which was unusual for him; he laughed at nonsense, at twaddle…" 34 vol. 65 no. 162 174 Marginality, Social, in literature Ruffato, Luiz 1961- BRASIL/BRAZIL vol. 34, no. 65 BRASIL/BRAZIL vol. 34, n.º 65 10.26300/5awm-8944