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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

Peter Robb

Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 670 Users | 82 Reviews

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Title	:	A Death in Brazil
Author	:	Peter Robb
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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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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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Robb includes some very detailed insights into political, social, and gastronomic aspects of Brazil, along with some mildly amusing anecdotes. I must admit I got chills at times reading this. Robb's language can at times seem pretentious.

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

An evocative and ambiguous view into a country that is the same. Like Brasyl, it names its sources.

I first read this in 2006 (I think), and loved it--I'd already been interested in visiting Brazil, and this book fanned the flames of my Brazil obsession like whoa. It's not as awesome as I remember--the author's voice has a self-importance that often gets on my nerves when he's recording his own travel experiences, rather than writing about history or politics. Plus, despite the fact that the whole book is about the social injustices that Brazil's history and present are steeped in, he often

Should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in modern Brazil and its turmoil. What a beautiful country. What a mess.

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

I found this a really frustrating book, at times the prose was fabulous-I felt like smell, taste and feel Brazil. Then it got so confused and opaque I couldnt follow it at all.