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Via Ápia

Via Ápia

Martins, Geovani
Sanches, Julia

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0374612986
ISBN13: 9780374612986
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.17
Language: English

From one of Brazil's most acclaimed new literary stars, a twenty-first-century epic set in Rio's largest favela.

Life on the morro, the hill, is good. Five young people--the brothers Washington and Wesley and their friends Douglas, Murilo, and Biel--live close to Rocinha's main avenue, Via Ápia, just a quick bus ride from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.

But the rhythms of their lives stutter and scratch when Brazil's militarized police storm Rocinha as part of pacification efforts ahead of the upcoming World Cup and an influx of international tourists. Via Ápia charts the expectant anxiousness before the police's invasion, the chaos born from their occupation of the hill, and the aftermath of their silent withdrawal from the favela after one year.

Told in heated bursts and marked by the charged chronology of the protagonists' lives, Geovani Martins's prodigious debut novel knits together the dramas and dreams of the favela during a peak of turbulent unrest. Like the boom boom kat of Brazilian funk, the unbridled ambitions and resolute friendships of these characters blare throughout Via Ápia, delivering a resonant counternarrative to the notion that violent interventions are the state's only remedy to the afflictions of crime and poverty. The favela retorts: life, life is the answer.

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