Spilt Milk - Hardcover

Alison Translator. Buarque Chico. Entrekin

3.75

3,074 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184887488X ISBN 13: 9781848874886

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2012

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Centenarian Eulalio Assumpcao has reached the end of his long life. From his modest bed in a Rio public hospital, as his mind falters, he grandly recounts his past to passing nurses, his visiting daughter and the whitewashed ceiling. His eccentric stories are seemingly nothing more than the ramblings of a dying man, yet as he overlaps each confused memory, they begin to coalesce into a brilliant and bitter eulogy for himself and for Brazil. Charting his own fall from aristocracy, Eulalio's feverish monologue sprawls across the last century, from his empire-building ancestors to his drug-dealing great-great grandson. He confronts his senator father who squandered the family fortune on women and cocaine, and recalls the imperious mother who he always disappointed; but as he drifts through each shifting episode, he never stops searching for Matilde, the girl with cinnamon skin, who danced her way into his heart and then broke it when she disappeared.

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About the Author:

Born 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Chico Buarque, is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet. Although he first made his name as a musician, in 1968 Buarque was imprisoned by the Brazilian dictatorship for writing and composing the existential play Roda Viva. During the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with other atists in protest against the dictatorship. He is the author of numerous novels; in 2010 Spilt Milk won both of Brazil's leading literary prizes, the Premio Jabuti and the Premio Portugal Telecom. He lives in Rio de Janeiro.

Review:

Try to imagine that Bob Dylan and Ian McEwan were the same person. That's Buarque * Sunday Times * An exceptionally vivid picture of Brazilian high society... an absorbing, if bitter, meditation on Brazil * Sunday Telegraph * Spilt Milk confirms Buarque as one of the most remarkable contemporary authors... It is one of the outstanding Brazilian novels of our time * Financial Times *

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