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'Like everyone I went to Brazil to get away...' So begins this collage of travel, history, culture and personal reminiscence from the author of Midnight in Sicily and M. Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. Even today, Brazil is a nation of almost unimaginable distance between its wealthy and its poor, a place of extraordinary levels of crime and violence. It is also one of the most beautiful and seductive places on earth. Using the art and the food, and the books of its great nineteenth century writer, Machado de Assis, Robb takes us on a journey into a world like Conrad's Nostromo. A world so absurdly dramatic, like the current president Lula's fight for power, that it could have come from one of the country's immensely popular TV soap operas, a world where resolution is often only provided by death. Like all the best travel writing, A Death in Brazil immerses you deep into the heart of a fascinating country. Vivid, obsessive and intelligent, this is an utterly enthralling account.
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‘It is compellingly readable and elegant. In fact, anyone planning a trip to Brazil should read this book’ -- Daily Mail
‘It’s a brilliant piece of writing ... a dark and thrilling ride through Brazilian life and history ... necessary reading’ -- Daily Express
‘Outstanding ... a heady and fascinating picture of an extraordinary country’ -- Daily Telegraph
‘Robb is a superb stylist, and this brilliant dissection of modern Brazil is unputdownable’ -- Sunday Times
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‘It’s a brilliant piece of writing ... a dark and thrilling ride through Brazilian life and history ... necessary reading’ -- Daily Express
‘Outstanding ... a heady and fascinating picture of an extraordinary country’ -- Daily Telegraph
‘Robb is a superb stylist, and this brilliant dissection of modern Brazil is unputdownable’ -- Sunday Times
Peter Robb is the author of Midnight in Sicily, M, and a novel Pig's Blood. He has lived in Europe and Brazil for much of his adult life. He now lives in Sydney, Australia.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0747573158
- ISBN 13 9780747573159
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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