From world-renowned Brazilian writer Chico Buarque comes a stylish, imaginative tale of love, loss, and longing, played out across multiple generations of one Brazilian family. At once jubilant and painfully nostalgic, playful and devastatingly urgent, "Spilt Milk" cements Chico Buarque's reputation[...]
On his way home from the Anonymous Writers Congress in Istanbul when technical problems force his plane to land in Budapest, Brazilian ghostwriter Jose Costa becomes fascinated by the Hungarian language and by Kriska, a language teacher, but he soon discovers that he has troubles at home in Rio, inc[...]
"In a Brazilian public hospital, an old man's heartbeat falters: his daughter and the nurses wait impatiently, listening to the incoherent monologue of a dying man. But as Eulalio's body stays rooted to the bed, his mind, unshackled from human consciousness, soars. And as his daughter becomes attune[...]
José Costa har bevistat Anonyma Författares kongress i Istanbul och är på väg hem till Rio då ett bombhot mot hans Lufthansa-plan tvingar honom att övernatta i Budapest. Fascinerad av ungerskan han är när allt kommer omkring en man som lever av språket, som spökskriver tal, annonser, bö[...]