The Book of Rio: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City) - Softcover

Moutinho, Marcelo; Lehmann, Elvira Vigna; Ximenes Braga, Joao; Pellegrini, Domingos; Bettencourt, Lucia; Noll, Joao Gilberto; Denis, Rafael Cardoso

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905583680 ISBN 13: 9781905583683

Verlag: Comma Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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 of the excesses of partying, the dark underbelly that accompanies any urban hedonist's destination. But these are just two images of Rio. There are countless others: opulent seat of two former empires; stronghold of brutal, twentieth-century dictatorships; sprawling metropolis stretched between stunning mountain tops and equally stunning economic extremes from the affluence of neighbourhoods like Leblon and Ipanema, to the overcrowded slums in the foothills, the favelas. This anthology brings together ten short stories that go beyond the postcards and snapshots, and introduce us to real residents of Rio the cariocas: young hopefuls training to be the next stars of samba, exhausted labourers press-ganged into meeting an impossible construction deadline (the nation s pride being at stake), bored call-girls, nostalgic drag queens, married couples having petty middle-class domestics.... These are characters who've developed a deep understanding of Rio's contradictions, a way of living with the grey areas between the grime and the glitz that make Rio the marvellous city it is.

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Críticas:

'It collects modern fiction that gives a rich, variegated picture of the Brazilian city and its inhabitants.' --The Independent

'Stories in The Book of Rio pulsate with music and sex, ache with fatigue and yearning, flicker with the occult, crackle with danger.' --Book Oxygen

Reseña del editor:

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 1974, to contemporary life in the neighbourhood of Leblon, where a call girl trying to get to a party reluctantly accepts a very strange job for the evening. The ten stories in this anthology bring to life the complex and ever-changing face of Rio de Janeiro behind the images of slums, carnivals and the sex trade. Featuring stories by award-winning, leading authors, screenwriters, journalists and playwrights, including 2013 International Emmy Award-winner, João Ximenes Braga.

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• Verlag: Comma Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1905583680
• ISBN 13: 9781905583683
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Herausgeber: Marques Toni, Slade Katie