The Tower of Glass

By Ivan Ângelo

The five interlocking stories in The Tower Of Glass create a singular, powerful account of a nation in turmoil - and a prophetic warning about an oppressive government's need to control not just the society but the mind. Through symbolism, wry humour, and outrageous sexual frankness, Ivan Angelo tells of businessmen and whores, poor working people and Death Squads, truth and illusion, and methods of political manipulation and terror. From the gritty, bawdy story of "Bete the Streetwalker" to the Kafkaesque portrait of a prison made of glass, the fictional pieces demonstrate Angelo's masterful wordplay, and his ability to take formal and structural risks without a false step.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564783464
• ISBN13: 9781564783462
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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A remarkable view of a repressed society viewed through several refractions. Five stories which surround you into a depiction of the military regime of 1970's Brazil. Innovative story telling, with each story performing its own gimmick and each story pulling it off. The surface may be often derivational, but the core of each tale is as accurate and moving as anything Brazil has produced.