Jose Goncalves feels trapped by a repressive society and struggles to find a meaning for his life in a South American city

Zero (English and Portuguese Edition)

Brandão, Ignácio de Loyola

Literature & Fiction

Avon/Books

There are no heroes in Igna cio de Loyola Branda o's world, only victims: not only of violence, but of deceit, desire, and fear. In The Good-Bye Angel, Branda o returns to his great subject: the tyranny of the community versus the individual, the city versus its inhabitants. Large enough to develop its own mythology, yet small enough to be provincial and petty, the city of Arealva (standing in for Brazil, and the world at large) is itself a character in Branda o's latest novel, toying with and finally consuming its citizens with the innocent cruelty of a cat with its prey--it's nothing personal, but it needs the meat. A cross between a film noir and a Greek tragedy, with more than its share of sex and drugs (though no rock 'n' roll), The Good-Bye Angel begins with a murder and ends in a panorama of ambition, obsession, libido, hypocrisy, and loneliness.

Good-Bye Angel: Honest Cheats Play Dirty Games Clean (Brazilian Literature)

Literary

Dalkey Archive Press

Welcome to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future. Water is scarce, garbage clogs the city, movement is restricted, and the System--sinister, omnipotent, secret--rules its subjects' every moment and thought. Here, middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless life in a world where hope is a lie and all memory of the past is forbidden. A classic novel of "dystopia," looking back to Orwell's "1984" and forward to Terry Gilliam's "Brazil," "And Still the Earth" stands with Loyola Brandao's "Zero" as one of the author's greatest, and darkest, achievements.

And Still the Earth (Brazilian Literature)

United States

O ganhador: Romance (Portuguese Edition)

Global Editora

Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, FAAP, 1947-1997 (Portuguese Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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