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- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 17th Century
AN EPIC TALE OF LOVE AND LIBERATION SET IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL BRAZIL From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where fugitive slaves live free. But can this promised land...
- Location(s): Sao Paulo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mario Leme is a low-ranking detective in the Sao Paolo civil police. Every day on the way to work he sets off early and drives through the favela known as Paraisopolis – Paradise City. It’s a pilgrimage: his wife...
- Location(s): Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): The present
In the first novel in the Roger and Suzanne mystery series, private detective Roger Bowman and his girlfriend scientist Suzanne Foster find themselves traveling through Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina to solve a baffling and grotesque murder case. Parts...
The Book of Rio (Reading The City)
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s the city the rest of the world descends on to party…. whether for the spectacular annual Carnival, the sun-kissed beaches, the World Cup, or, in 2016, the Olympics. It’s also a place that’s sadly become synonymous with some...
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s-1990s
For fans of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty: Determined to honor her late husband’s final request, Judith and her teenage step-daughter, Rosa, set out on a journey from London to Brazil to track down his family and take his...
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): present day
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, Klara Brandt discovers that the man responsible for the brutal massacre of her family when she was a child in Germany is still alive. Her thirst for vengeance compels...
- Location(s): Brazil, West Africa
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina’s home is in ruins after a brutal raid. But this is not the end but the beginning of their story, one that will take them to unfamiliar cities and cultures, where they will forge...
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1890s
‘When I first came to Brazil, in 1952, I asked my Brazilian friends which Brazilian books I should begin reading … They frequently recommended this little book, “Minha Vida de Menina” … In English the title means “My Life...
The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the...
- Location(s): Brazil
- Genre(s): Fiction
From the sweltering slums of Rio de Janeiro to the isolated plantations of Brazil, The Healer tells the story of Manoel, a curandero, who inherits an incredible healing power, and the people whose lives he changes forever. But little...
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