In eighteen exhilarating stories, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the ’80s.
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Literature From the Sole - Highlighting Brazilian Literature
October 3rd and 4th, Music From the Sole brings their Brazilian influenced show, "I Didn't Come to Stay", to the Berkley Theater stage. Take advantage of this opportunity to explore the fabulous literary scene of Brazil with one of these titles.
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- The mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different, and far more satisfying, than he ever imagined.
- A black mother and daughter who work as live-in maids for a rich family in an unnamed Brazilian city, and the tragedy to which they unwittingly bear witness.
- An intimate portrayal of the formation of a family under extraordinary circumstances, told from the point of view of the youngest child. It’s an examination of identity, of family bonds, of the different forms that exile can take, of what it means…
- A portrait of the first generation of the digital age, a group that was promised everything but handed a fractured world.
- The everyday life of Karl, a wealthy, erudite, and amoral man who seeks an answer to his incomprehension of life through sex. Karl writes and sends twenty provocative letters to Cordelia, his chaste sister. The letters' text becomes intertwined…
- At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and writes stories for him about things both impossible and true.
- Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country mansion. They leave for the city, but the change of locale leaves Virginia's internal life unperturbed. In intensely poetic language, Lispector conducts a stratigraphic…
- A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s "Dom Casmurro" probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur.
- This tightly plotted novel by Brazil's best-selling crime author is a tale of drug dealing gone wrong, police corruption, and macabre blackmail, set in a heat-soaked town in the vast untamed Brazilian lowlands bordering Bolivia. One bright Sunday,…
- A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer.
- A pair of lovers, a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in the Brazilian outback, spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults, cruelty and warring egos, their…
- A novel about the unsettling space between identities, and a disturbing portrait of dementia from the inside out, "Lord" constructs an altogether original story out of the ways we search for new versions of ourselves.
- Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous…
- Paulo Scott's second novel to appear in English probes the old wounds of race in Brazil; and in particular the loss of a black identity independent from the history of slavery. Exploratory rather than didactic; a story of crime; street-life; and…
- Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and, momentarily mystified by its power, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them…
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