Chico Buarque
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
A novelized account of the Brazilian intellectual S©♭rgio Buarque de Holanda (Chico Buarque's father) and of Sergio Ernst (later Horst G©ơnther, then Sergio G©ơnther), the illegitimate son he fathered while living in Berlin in 1929-1930.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"An uproarious novel about a Brazilian man's often sordid, lifelong search for a possibly imaginary half-brother, born in Germany just before the Second World War" --
"In 1960s São Paulo, teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a scholar, cold and aloof, has spent his life acquiring them; his mother, by necessity, has spent her life organizing them. Ciccio himself feels like an...