Brazil: A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Alexis Levitin and Gregory Rabassa

Book Overview

This vital collection is as eclectic and electric as Brazil itself. These stories -- ranging from vignettes, sketches, and prose poems to traditional narratives -- cover a wide geography, physically, thematically, and stylistically. Tales of nature and magic, humor and tragedy, brutality and delicacy, sex and violence are played out against every corner of this vast and diverse land: the Amazon, the Northeast, the Central West, and the South, as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883513219
• ISBN13: 9781883513214
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Whereabouts Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.9" x 7.2"