The first English language translation of Robert Linhart’s The Sugar and the Hunger, originally published in 1980 is an indispensable factographic inquiry into modern hunger.
Alongside the translation, the book also includes “The Third World, Investigations, Social Analysis,” an unpublished interview with Linhart from 1980 made by Jean Copans, giving an insight into the political and theoretical background of his investigation in Brazil.
The afterword by Luiz Renato Martins, an active Brazilian Marxist art historian and journalist, further contextualizes the importance of Linhart’s book. Renato Martins, who recently directed a documentary film: Conversations With Robert Linhart, discusses The Sugar and the Hunger against the backdrop of today’s world where the practices of expropriation of land and food from peasants and urban poor. -Publisher
