Blues for a Lost Childhood: A novel of Brazil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780930523688)

It's another hot, sleepless night in Rio, punctuated by the sounds of jazz, TV, and gunshots from the caf s and shanties. In the narrator's drink-bruised mind, a nightmare begins with a parade of child coffins and a cascade of memories.
One figure stands out: Calunga, local hero, iconoclast, joker and fixer, who battles his way out of the stagnant "Backlands" of his boyhood to become a big-city journalist. Defeated by the city, his own weakness, and decades of corrupt politics and military dictatorship, only his irony remains.
Here lies all the fascinating and convulsive history of Brazil during the past thirty years and more.

Author: Antio Torres
ISBN-10: 0930523687
ISBN-13: 9780930523688
Publisher: Readers International
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2020
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.82h x 4.94w x 0.40d