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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Blues for a Lost Childhood: A novel of Brazil

Blues for a Lost Childhood: A novel of Brazil

Torres, Antônio

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Literary CriticismLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0930523687
ISBN13: 9780930523688
Publisher: Readers International
Published: Jul 10 2020
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.94 Depth: 7.82
Language: English
It's another hot, sleepless night in Rio, punctuated by the sounds of jazz, TV, and gunshots from the cafés 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.

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