The Book of Rio: A City in Short Fiction

by Marcelo Moutinho, Cesar Cardaso, João Gilberto Noll, et al.

This diverse, literary patchwork of Rio de Janeiro contains 10 short stories set in varied quarters of the city drawing on its inhabitants' experiences of recent historical and cultural changes. From Copacabana's thriving LGBT scene in the 1960s where the military dictatorship simultaneously terrorizes and represses politically-minded citizens, to the exhausted labourers constructing the Rio-Niteroi bridge - 'the pride of Brazil' - at gunpoint in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905583680
• ISBN13: 9781905583683
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Comma Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.6"