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181 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
"In eighteen exhilarating stories, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the 80s. Tenderly suspended between fear and longing, Abreu's characters grasp for connection. A man speckled with Carnival glitter crosses a crowded dance floor and seeks the warmth and beauty of another body. A budding office friendship between two young men turns into a surprising love, "a strange and...
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New Directions paperbook volume 1560
Physical Desc
xv, 264 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they leave their home in the northern Amazon for a whirlwind tour of Brazil, cramming four centuries and a continental expanse into a single mythic plane. Having lost a magic amulet, the hero and his brothers...
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242 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the heady days before a New Year's Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil's Copacabana Beach, a family reckons with a matriarch's long-awaited return, causing old secrets to come to light in this infectiously vibrant debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes, two peoples, and two worlds"--
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155 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a Rio de Janeiro suburb in the 1970s, a family - the parents, their daughter, and crippled teenage son Camilo - take in an orphan named Cosme. The teen boys unexpectedly fall in love, but their intimate world is shattered when Cosme is killed by a neighbor in a brutal hate crime. Decades later, Camilo returns to his hometown, still haunted by this violence and the long shadow of Brazil's military dictatorship. A fluid, queer coming-of-age story...
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