The narrator of this tale is haunted by nostalgia for the places of his childhood set in a city that can only be Rio de Janeiro. A drop-out from the privileged world of luxury beach apartments and sybaritic obsessions, he has entered the 'other' Brazil of wretched poverty and petty crime.
- ISBN10 0747511721
- ISBN13 9780747511724
- Publish Date 12 November 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 April 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English