Product Description: From world-renowned Brazilian writer Chico Buarque comes a stylish, imaginative tale of love and loss. Spilt Milk is the story told by hundred-year-old Eulálio d’Assumpção as he lies on his deathbed, rambling to his nurses and visitors through a haze of morphine and memory...read more

Product Description: From world-renowned Brazilian writer Chico Buarque comes a stylish, imaginative tale of love and loss. Spilt Milk is the story told by hundred-year-old Eulálio d’Assumpção as he lies on his deathbed, rambling to his nurses and visitors through a haze of morphine and memory...read more

On his way home from the Anonymous Writers Congress in Istanbul when technical problems force his plane to land in Budapest, Brazilian ghostwriter Jose Costa becomes fascinated by the Hungarian language and by Kriska, a language teacher, but he soon discovers that he has troubles at home in Rio, including the disappearance of his wife. Reprint.

Product Description: En una alucinante duermevela, un joven de buena familia desarraigado, que vive como un don nadie al borde de la marginalidad, nos arrastra a una autentica pesadilla de violencia, incomunicación y soledad. En una caótica ciudad, disueltas ya las categorías sociales en la apocalíptica promiscuidad del desencanto, del miedo y del deterioro moral, el narrador, criado en un mundo parapetado tras la seguridad de blindadas y lujosas mansiones, se ve un día catapultado por casualidad - o por elección propia? - al submundo periférico de la delincuencia que actúa en esa frontera, ya imprecisa, con la sociedad de los guapos y ricos a la que va socavando poco a poco...read more

'Salgado's stunning photographs of Brazil's landless rural population (estimated at nearly five million) includes an impassioned and biting preface by Saramago, three poems by Chico Buarque, and extensive captions. Ably translated. A beautiful and disturbing book'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Presents over one hundred images taken between 1980 and 1996 to commemorate the massacre of landless farmhands in the state of Par in April 1996

A series of highly charged cinematic scenes, viewed through the eyes of a nameless narrator, gives an intense, apocalyptic vision of the paranoia, lawlessness, and chaos that define urban life in Brazil. 10,000 first printing.