The Incredible Brazilian

by Zulfikar Ghose

Book Overview

Subject: Novel, fiction, plantation owners, slavery, colonial Brazil - 17th century. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879512008
• ISBN13: 9780879512002
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Overlook Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12

Customer Reviews

A masterpiece of magical realism

Zulfikar Ghose is without question the greatest Pakistani Latin American magical realist. This is probably the reason he is not better known, and the reason that this, his masterpiece, is sadly out of print. He is too hard to categorize.Set in 16th century Brazil, the novel is a brilliant exploration of ambition, greed, deception and lust. Lust perhaps being the most important of these, as the desire to possess a new and virgin continent is conflated with, and sometimes identical to, sexual desire.The language is beautiful, precise, sometimes arcane and always compelling. And although this novel contains serious reflections on important philosophical themes, the narrative drive never flags. As you read the ending, you will want to flip to Page One and begin again.