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Author : Zulfikar Ghose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Incredible Brazilian: A different world written by Zulfikar Ghose and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zulfikar Ghose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780030019517
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Incredible Brazilian written by Zulfikar Ghose and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zulfikar Ghose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780363165
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Incredible Brazilian written by Zulfikar Ghose and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is the 1970s. Brazil is ruled by a military dictatorship; terrorists, intellectuals and students have been arrested, there have been fearful accounts of torture. And Gregorio, whose fate has been to be a central participant in this history of Brazil, finds his twentieth-century incarnation the most hazardous of all. The urban guerillas cannot be sure if he is not an informer while the Government suspects him of subtle duplicity. Thus, Gregorio finds himself as the outsider whose destiny is to prevent, or at least delay the barbarians, both of the revolution and of the counter-revolution, from taking over. Gregorio is now involved in an extraordinary drama that sees him as a powerful symbol of modern man struggling against the political chaos of his time. Some historical events - the military revolution in 1694, the kidnapping of the U.S. Ambassador, terrorist bank robberies - form the background to this novel. But Gregorio's story is also a story of personal passion for his mysteriously inscrutable mistress Amalia and a passion, too, for the idea of Brazil which is more than the territory of a nation. The two passions sometimes coincide and sometimes draw apart: Gregorio can never be sure whether in possessing Amalia he has not possessed Brazil and losing her whether he has not seen the dream of a perfect world - that 'Brazil' of his mind - disappear. The witty, rich prose of this novel in which the world is brought alive in a language of sensuous vitality makes this a very compelling book to read. To bring the complicated plot together and at the same time to release a world of ideas in the reader's mind, the author has created a prose of equal complexity which in itself will give a profound pleasure to many readers. Praise for The Incredible Brazilian Trilogy: 'A picaresque prose epic of Brazilian history written by a Pakistani-born British poet who lives in Texas could not fail to be remarkable. The Incredible Brazilian is also genuinely comic, truly wise, and altogether fascinating' Thomas Berger '... a considerable feat of the imagination and novelistic ventriloquism' Paul Theroux
Author : Zulfikar Ghose
Publisher : Overlook Books
ISBN 13 : 9780879519827
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Different World written by Zulfikar Ghose and published by Overlook Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reincarnated into the 1970s, Gregorio Peixoto da Silva Xavier decides to disrupt the military takeover of Brazil
Author : Zulfikar Ghose
Publisher : Overlook Books
ISBN 13 : 9780879512002
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Incredible Brazilian written by Zulfikar Ghose and published by Overlook Books. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fourteen-year-old boy growing up in seventeenth-century Brazil, embarks on a series of wild escapades in search of self-esteem and identity
Author : Larry Rohter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230120733
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Brazil on the Rise written by Larry Rohter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabled country with a reputation for danger, romance and intrigue, Brazil has transformed itself in the past decade. This title, written by the go-to journalist on Brazil, intimately portrays a country of contradictions, a country of passion and above all a country of immense power.
Author : Dave Zirin
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608464334
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Brazil's Dance with the Devil written by Dave Zirin and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Boston Globe’s Best Sports Books of the Year: “Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny” (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man). The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world’s most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary Brazilians were holding the country’s biggest protest marches in decades. Sports journalist Dave Zirin traveled to Brazil to find out why. In a rollicking read that travels from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the fabled Maracanã Stadium to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Zirin examines Brazilians’ objections to the corruption of the games they love; the toll such events take on impoverished citizens; and how taking to the streets opened up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports. “Millions will enjoy the World Cup and Olympics, but Zirin justly reminds readers of the real human costs beyond the spectacle.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Ruy Castro
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613745745
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bossa Nova written by Ruy Castro and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as “The Girl from Ipanema” (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), “The Waters of March,” and “Desafinado” are known around the world. Bossa Nova—a number-one bestseller when originally published in Brazil as Chega de Saudade—is a definitive history of this seductive music. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jo+o Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova explains how a handful of Rio de Janeiro teenagers changed the face of popular culture around the world. Now, in this outstanding translation, the full flavor of Ruy Castro’s wisecracking, chatty Portuguese comes through in a feast of detail. Along the way he introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who turned Gilberto’s singular vision into the sound of a generation.
Author : Ana Maria Machado
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554984637
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book From Another World written by Ana Maria Machado and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariano and his friends are helping their parents turn an old Brazilian coffee plantation into an inn. The children sleep in a shed, which is being converted into guest rooms. One night they hear crying. Gradually, the ghost of Rosario, a young slave from the late 1800s appears to them and tells the story of why she is so sad. Hans Christian Andersen Award-winning author Ana Maria Machado's storytelling skills and social conscience come together in this powerful and moving book that reveals the evil of slavery in a real, immediate and unforgettable way.
Author : Nelson Faria
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1457101351
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Brazilian Guitar Book written by Nelson Faria and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A complete guide to playing guitar accompaniment and chord melodies in various Brazilian styles -- Samba, Bossa Nova, Frevo, etc. * Comes with a CD of Nelson demonstrating each exercise, plus a tune in each style * Many variations of basic comping patterns written out, each with complete chord voicings. * Also includes short transcriptions of guitar parts as recorded by Toninho Horta, Joao Bosco, Joao Gilberto, etc.
