Ebook: Free City
Author: Almino João, McNeil Rhett
- Tags: Brasília (Distrito Federal Brazil) -- Fiction. Brazil -- Brasília (Distrito Federal) FICTION / General
- Series: Brazilian literature series
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- City: Brasília (Distrito Federal, Brazil), Brazil--Brasília (Distrito Federal)
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English, Portuguese
- epub
This is Joao Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled -- including Aldous Huxley, Fidel Castro, Andre Malraux, John Dos Passos, Elizabeth Bishop, and many others. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even Read more...
Abstract: This is Joao Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled -- including Aldous Huxley, Fidel Castro, Andre Malraux, John Dos Passos, Elizabeth Bishop, and many others. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with their vested interests, each with new reasons for spinning fictions of their own