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- Location(s): Geneva, Paris, Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
Their future is written in the stars . . . Maia D’Apliése and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, ‘Atlantis’ – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told...
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
How a crazy queen, a frightened prince and a corrupt court tricked Napoleon and changed the history of Portugal and Brazil. A book set in Brazil. The story of Portuguese King Dom João who fled Portugal as Napoleon was...
- Location(s): Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
1822, How a wise man, a sad princess and a money crazy Scotsman helped D. Pedro create Brazil, a country that had everything to go wrong. A book set in Brazil. This is a non-fiction historical book written by...
- Location(s): Brighton, Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70 and early 2000s
From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio de Janeiro, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil and the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love and loss. Simultaneously familiar and foreign, this...
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction
Melchior Steenbergen is leading an idyllic life. An elite member of Holland’s diplomatic corps, he is the Consul General in Rio, with a sweeping view of the Ipanema bay from his official residence, and a beautiful wife 20 years...
- Location(s): Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Various
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....
- Location(s): Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador de Bahia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Since the arrival of Gringa, everything has been going wrong. Maria Aparecida, the queen of the slums, has disappeared: one-eyed Tonio has stopped singing: Ze and Manuel are feverish and Mama Lourdes the clairvoyant can only predict bad news....
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Cidade de Deus, the City of God welcome to one of Rio’s most notorious slums. A place where the streets are awash with drugs, where violence can erupt at any moment, over drugs, money and love but also where...
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Novella, Disability, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1970s
Camilo is a middle-class boy growing up in the sweltering suburbs of 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during Brazil’s often brutal military dictatorship. Disabled by monoparesis, he lives a sheltered life under the blistering sun, rarely venturing beyond his own...
- Location(s): Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
In a parking garage in the centre of Rio de Janeiro, young executive Ricardo Carvalho climbs into his car, takes a few drags of his cigarette and shoots himself dead. Handsome, rich and married to a beautiful wife, Ricardo...
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