Chico Buarque
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An uproarious novel about a Brazilian man's often sordid, lifelong search for a possibly imaginary half-brother, born in Germany just before the Second World War"--
"In 1960s São Paulo, teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a scholar, cold and aloof, has spent his life acquiring them; his mother, by necessity, has spent her life organizing them. Ciccio himself feels like an...
3) Spilt milk
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
177 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Centenarian Eulalio Assumpcao has reached the end of his long life. From his modest bed in a Rio public hospital, as his mind falters, he grandly recounts his past to passing nurses, his visiting daughter and the whitewashed ceiling. His eccentric stories are seemingly nothing more than the ramblings of a dying man, yet as he overlaps each confused memory, they begin to coalesce into a brilliant and bitter eulogy for himself and for Brazil. Charting...
5) As Cidades
Author
Publisher
BMG Brasil
Pub. Date
[n.d.]
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Author
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Language
English
Description
"Salgado's stunning photographs of Brazil's landless rural population (estimated at nearly five million) includes an impassioned and biting preface by Saramago, three poems by Chico Buarque, and extensive captions. Ably translated. A beautiful and disturbing book"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.