A Book of Days for the Brazilian Literary Year
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Authors, Brazilian |
| ISBN | : |
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A Book of Days for the Brazilian Literary Year
| Author | : Márcio Souza |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Brazilian literature |
| ISBN | : |
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City of God
| Author | : Paulo Lins |
| Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
| Total Pages | : 556 |
| Release | : 2007-12-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 155584684X |
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The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based. “A Scarface-like urban epic . . . punctuated with lyricism and longing” (Publishers Weekly). City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil’s most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and love—but also a place where the samba beat rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. When City of God erupted on screens worldwide, it became one of the most critically and commercially successful foreign films of recent years. But few were aware of the story behind the film. Written by Paulo Lins, who grew up in the favela (shantytown) Cidade de Deus in Rio de Janeiro and who spent years researching its gang history, City of God began life as a coruscating, harrowing novelistic account of twenty years in the illicit pursuits of the youth gangs born from the favela. “With plot devices sometimes as minimal as the dawning of a new day, City of God seems more like a mosaic than a novel, but it’s a mosaic with unforgettably vibrant colors.” —Booklist
Brazil Apart
| Author | : Perry Anderson |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2019-10-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1788737962 |
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Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula’s Workers’ Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right What does Brazil’s lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America’s largest country, and how has it come about? Always something of a world unto itself, Brazil became, under the Workers’ Party from 2003 to 2016, “the theatre of a socio-political drama without equivalent in any other major state.” Bucking the global trend towards a tighter neoliberalism, former steelworker Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva swept aside the broken promises of previous years to invest in social transfers, defying vituperations in the Brazilian media to become the most popular ruler of the age. But in a second spectacular reversal, a parliamentary coup d’état against Lula’s successor—backed by forces in the judiciary and a youthful New Right—has been consolidated by Bolsonaro’s 2018 capture of the Planalto. With the PT’s lodestar now behind bars, a weighing up of his legacy, and of the contrasting Bolsonaro regime, is urgently needed. Brazil Apart is the sharp-edged, comprehensive analytic account required.
Perfect Days
| Author | : Raphael Montes |
| Publisher | : Penguin Group |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2017-02-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0143129996 |
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A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver—that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. An aspiring screenwriter, she's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil in search of romance. Teo is obsessed. He begins to stalk her, first following her to her university, then to her home, and when she ultimately rejects him, he kidnaps her and they embark upon their very own twisted odyssey across Brazil, tracing the same route outlined in her screenplay. Through it all, Teo is certain that time is all he needs to prove to Clarice that they are made for each other, that time is all he needs to make her fall in love with him. But as the journey progresses, he digs himself deeper and deeper into a pit that he can't get out of, stopping at nothing to ensure that no one gets in the way of their life together. Both tense and lurid, and brimming with suspense from the very first page, Perfect Days is a psychological thriller in the vein of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley—a chilling journey in the passenger seat with a psychopath, and the English language debut of one of Brazil's most deliciously dark young writers.
The Brazil of To-day
| Author | : Arthur Dias |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 650 |
| Release | : 1907 |
| Genre | : Brazil |
| ISBN | : |
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South Africa
| Author | : Isabel Balseiro |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781883513221 |
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Featuring 18 contemporary short stories by South Africa's best writers, this work takes readers on a journey through the country's literary landscape, exploring Africa's most popular travel destination as no travel guide can.
Brazil on the Rise
| Author | : Larry Rohter |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2012-02-28 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0230120733 |
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A fabled country with a reputation for danger, romance and intrigue, Brazil has transformed itself in the past decade. This title, written by the go-to journalist on Brazil, intimately portrays a country of contradictions, a country of passion and above all a country of immense power.
Brazil Land of the Future
| Author | : Stefan Zweig |
| Publisher | : Franklin Classics |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2018-10-14 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780343132743 |
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The End
| Author | : Fernanda Torres |
| Publisher | : Restless Books |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2017-07-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1632061228 |
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The End centers on five friends in Rio de Janeiro who, nearing the end of their lives, are left with memories—of parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, bad decisions—and the physical indignities of aging. Alvaro lives alone and spends his time going from doctor to doctor and bemoaning the evils of his ex-wife. Silvio is a junkie who can’t give up the excesses of sex and drugs even in his old age. Ribeiro is an athletic beach bum enjoying a prolonged sex life thanks to Viagra. Neto is the square member of the group, a faithful husband until his last days. And Ciro is the Don Juan envied by all—but the first to die, struck down by cancer. For all of them, successful careers, personal revelations, and Zen serenity are out of the question, blocked by a seemingly insurmountable wall of frustrations. Orbiting around them are a priest questioning his vocation and a cast of complicated women, neglected and embattled by these self-involved men. Edgy and wise, this tragicomic debut delves into taboo subjects—death, infidelity, impotence, the difficulties of marriage—with unsentimental honesty, and brings Rio and these characters to life in full color.
