The gathering of a wealthy group of people for a birthday party and the attempt by migrant workers to form a settlement provide the background for Angelo's stark portrait of the social and political realities of Latin American life

The Celebration (English and Portuguese Edition)

Angelo, Ivan

Romance

Avon Books / Bard

The author's tales of Brazil's businessmen, whores, poor working people, and Death Squads, unite to create a singular, powerful account of a nation in turmoil

Tower of Glass

Literature & Fiction

Avon/Books

In the early morning of March 31, 1970 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the annual birthday celebration of a prominent and wealthy young artist is taking place; and a train docked in Plaza Station filled with starving, drought-stricken migrant workers seeking relief gets turned away by the authorities, sparking a riot. From these seemingly unrelated events, Ivan Angelo's remarkable debut novel connects and implicates the lives of a complex of characters spanning three decades of tumultuous social and political history in twentieth-century Brazil. But with the central event - the celebration - missing, the reader is thrust into the middle of an intricate puzzle, left to construct the story from the evidence that accrues in a range of comic, unnverving, misleading and tragic episodes.

Celebration (Latin American Literature)

Dalkey Archive Press

The five interlocking stories in The Tower Of Glass create a singular, powerful account of a nation in turmoil - and a prophetic warning about an oppressive government's need to control not just the society but the mind. Through symbolism, wry humour, and outrageous sexual frankness, Ivan Angelo tells of businessmen and whores, poor working people and Death Squads, truth and illusion, and methods of political manipulation and terror. From the gritty, bawdy story of "Bete the Streetwalker" to the Kafkaesque portrait of a prison made of glass, the fictional pieces demonstrate Angelo's masterful wordplay, and his ability to take formal and structural risks without a false step.

Literary

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The Celebration (English and Portuguese Edition)

Tower of Glass

Celebration (Latin American Literature)

Tower of Glass