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Original Title:	A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions (John MacRae Books)
ISBN:	0805076417 (ISBN13: 9780805076417)
Edition Language:	English

A Death in Brazil Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages

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Combining travel, history, culture, and his own memories of twenty years of Brazilian life, the author of Midnight in Sicily delves into the past and present of a country that affects our imagination like few other places on earth From his own near murder in Rio at the hands of an intruder twenty years ago and continuing through the recent slaying of a former president's bagman who looted the country of more than a billion dollars, violent death poses a steady threat in Peter Robb's brilliant travelogue through modern-day Brazil. It's not death, however, that leaves a lasting impression but the exuberant life force that emanates from the country and its people. Seeking to understand how extreme danger and passion can coexist in a nation for centuries, Robb travels from the cobalt blue shores of southern Brazil to the arid mountains of the northeast recounting four centuries of Brazilian history from the days of slavery to the recent election of the country's first working-class president. Much more than a journey through history, Robb renders in vivid detail the intoxicating pleasures of the food, music, and climate of the country and references the work of Brazil's greatest writers to depict a culture unlike any other. With a stunning prose style and an endlessly inquisitive intellect, Robb builds layer upon layer of history, culture, and personal reminiscence into a deeply personal, impressionistic portrait of a nation. The reader emerges from A Death in Brazil not just with more knowledge about the country but with a sense of having experienced it and with a deep understanding of its turbulent soul.

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Title	:	A Death in Brazil
Author	:	Peter Robb
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	May 5th 2004 by Henry Holt and Co. (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Travel. Cultural. Brazil. History. Nonfiction. Politics

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I wanted to read this book as I was moving to Brazil the next year and though it'd be book background and light reading. It was interesting and did have lots of interesting, useful facts about Brazil and their politics, corruption, and history. However I did not like the authors writing style at all. There was no order to the book or his writing! I felt like it was just a bunch of paragraphs jumbled together.This was a relatively small book and it took me 3 months to read because I had to force

In preparation for an upcoming trip to Brazil, I was in search of something that could give me a satisfying, but not too dense, overview of what the country might be about. Peter Robb's "A Death in Brazil" highlights three main threads, then weaves them together in a haphazard tapestry that left me with at least a slight notion that when I make my first trip to the South American continent, I'll at least have a vague sense of how the place I'm visiting came to be.The three threads that Robb

Some people like to do research about a destination before traveling there; I prefer reading about a place after Ive been there and have some context and personal experiences to draw from. I actually started A Death in Brazil a couple years ago and couldnt get into it, but after a trip to Brazil this winter I rediscovered it on my bookshelf and got sucked in. The book is a little hard to categorize; its part travelogue, part food blog, part history, and part investigative reporting. Robb covers

This book is kind of a complicated twist of modern Brazilian politicians' lives and Brazil's earlier history. Honestly, I did not find the politicians' lives all that interesting. The history kind of describes how Brazil was never a country that was all that serious about ethics or overall determination. The Portuguese were pretty lazy, and if a lot of Italians and Germans hadn't flooded into Southern Brazil around a hundred years ago, it wouldn't have a whole lot of industry today. I will

This probably isn't for most of my Goodreads friends, but this was fascinating and touching, tinged with sadness. The history of Brasil is messed up and corrupt. The author has lived in Brasil, Europe, and the United States for many years each. He compares and explains things well as he weaves back and forth from history to the present and his own experiences in Brasil. The book chronicles culture which I loved as I compare my own experiences, but I especially appreciated the deeper

There is more than one death in Peter Robb's A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions. It seems that Brazilian politics is even more corrupt and deadly than I ever imagined. Robb concentrates on the strip of the coast between Recife and Salvador, particularly the former. There is a smattering about Brazilian cuisine, history (particularly the 1890s campaign against Canudos), literature (particularly Machado de Assis), but mostly politics.There is a good deal about Fernando Collor de Mello; his

Once I was having an informal conversation with an Australian friend of mine and I was recommended A death in Brazil. "If you want to understand where you come from and why your people are like they are you ought to read this book" said my friend. Wow!!! I'm speechless. It's fascinating reading things from your country/culture that's written by someone who's not necessarily part of it. From the "beginning" things seemed to go wrong. The Indios (original people of Brazil) who'd been living there