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- Location(s): Glória, Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of The Love of Singular Men comes a book about three brothers with a dark inheritance. The Alencar Costa e Oliveira family talk to each other in inside jokes, often saying the opposite of what they...
- Location(s): Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Imagine your job is to translate for a pair of arrogant technology whizzkids on business in South America. Imagine you are accompanying them on a jaunty boat trip up the river Amazon. Imagine that late one night some foreign...
- Location(s): San Francisco, Brazil, Florida
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
When Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin boldly escaped from Alcatraz prison on June 11, 1962, it is widely believed that they succumbed to the waters of San Francisco Bay, though no trace of the men has...
- Location(s): Salvador de Bahia, Buenos Aires
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Inés is convinced that every wife is bound to be betrayed one day, so she is not surprised to find a note in her husband Ernesto’s briefcase with a heart smeared in lipstick crossed by the words “All Yours”....
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
For André, a young man growing up on a farm in Brazil, life consists of ‘the earth, the wheat, the bread, our table and our family’. He loves the land, fears his austere, pious father who preaches from the...
- Location(s): Berlin, Brazil, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Mundo is a rebel – the embittered offshoot of a rich family, whose artistic vocation clashes with his father’s dynastic plans. Ashes of the Amazon charts his determined flight from the fraught centre of his family’s wealth – the...
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Espionage, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Thomas Dylan is an unlikely spy. Rejected by MI6 he joins the Ministry of Defence where his first mission is a total failure. Unexpectedly he is then sent to Rio de Janeiro to recover a submarine interrogator stolen from...
Backlands: The Canudos Campaign
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1890s
In Canudos, a backlands town in the Northeastern State of Bahia, Antônio Conselheiro (Anthony the Counselor) preached against the republic. His followers, leather-clad ruffians or ‘jagungos’, terrorised the countryside. In the 1890s the Republic of Brazil was in its...
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of...
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the interior of Brazil, landless workers battle the owners of vast Fazendas. When a visiting archbishop is assassinated, Mario Silva of the federal police is called upon to investigate. Then a newspaper owner, a TV journalist, a landowner’s...
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