An uproarious novel about a man’s often sordid, lifelong search for his possibly imaginary half brother
My German Brother is the renowned Brazilian musician and author Chico Buarque’s attempt to reconstruct through fiction his obsessive lifelong search for a lost sibling.
In 1960s São Paulo, the teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a journalist and scholar, has spent his life acquiring them; his mother, by necessity, has spent her life organizing this library. Ciccio feels like an afterthought in his own family, largely left to his own criminal devices. Forbidden to touch any of these books, Ciccio sneaks off with The Golden Bough one day to discover a decades-old letter hidden inside. The letter reveals an illicit affair his father carried on while posted in Nazi-era Berlin, an affair that resulted in the birth of a baby boy. The child, along with his mother, vanished into the chaos of the Second World War. Ciccio develops a fascination for his mysterious German brother: a fixation that becomes a mission, both comical and courageous, pursued over decades, through dead ends and embarrassments and cases of mistaken identity. 
My German Brother is the project of a lifetime, combining what was, what might have been, and outright fabrication, all in order to arrive at the truth.

My German Brother: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Buarque, Chico

Literary

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Turbulence

Random House Value Publishing

A series of highly charged cinematic scenes, viewed through the eyes of a nameless narrator, gives an intense, apocalyptic vision of the paranoia, lawlessness, and chaos that define urban life in Brazil. 10,000 first printing.

TURBULENCE

Contemporary

Pantheon

"Salgado's stunning photographs of Brazil's landless rural population (estimated at nearly five million) includes an impassioned and biting preface by Saramago, three poems by Chico Buarque, and extensive captions. Ably translated. A beautiful and disturbing book"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Presents over one hundred images taken between 1980 and 1996 to commemorate the massacre of landless farmhands in the state of Par in April 1996

Terra: Struggle of the Landless

Arts & Photography

Salgado, Sebastião

Photography & Video

Phaidon Inc Ltd

This story is told by a drop-out from the privileged upper crust, who enters the "other" Brazil of wretched poverty and petty crime. Catapulted into a series of violent adventures, the narrator draws the reader into a hallucinatory underworld - a nightmare vision of paranoia and lawlessness.

TURBULENCE.

BLOOMSBURY

Fascinated by the Hungarian language - he is after all a man who lives by language, ghost writing speeches, advertisements, books - he spends the night watching television, trying to pick out words in this tongue, 'the only one the devil respects'. In charting the life of a Brazilian ghost writer enamoured with the Magyar, Chico Buarque has created his most original fiction yet. The novel coils round the reader like a magical snake from "The Arabian Nights". It is a storytelling labyrinth in Borges or Calvino mode, as Costa's myth-making, love-making and essays into another culture become mired in the world where celebrities make reputations and fortunes from the writing of anonymous others, where the reader is not sure what language, what reality is being offered.

Budapest

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Jose Costa has just attended the Anonymous Writers Congress in Istanbul and is on his way back to Rio when a bomb scare on his flight forces him to spend a night in Budapest. Fascinated by the Hungarian language - he is after all a ghost writer by trade and a man who lives by language - he spends the night watching television, trying to pick out words in this tongue, 'the only one the devil respects'. In charting Jose's life we enter a storytelling labyrinth, as his myth-making, love-making and essays into another culture become mired in the world where celebrities make reputations and fortunes from the writing of others, and where the reader is not sure what language, or what reality, is being offered

Budapest: A Novel

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, including the disappearance of his wife.

GROVE PRESS

Spilt Milk

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 as a masterful storyteller. As Eulálio Assumpção lies dying in a Brazilian public hospital, his daughter and the attending nurses are treatedwhether they like it or notto his last, rambling monologue. Ribald, hectoring, and occasionally delusional, Eulálio reflects on his past, present, and futureon his privileged, plantation-owning family; his father’s philandering with beautiful French whores; his own half-hearted career as a weapons dealer; the eventual decline of the family fortune; and his passionate courtship of the wife who would later abandon him. As Eulálio wanders the sinuous twists and turns of his own fragmented memories, Buarque conjures up a brilliantly evocative portrait of a man’s life and love, set in the broad sweep of vivid Brazilian history.

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My German Brother: A Novel

Turbulence

TURBULENCE

Terra: Struggle of the Landless

TURBULENCE.

Budapest

Budapest

Budapest: A Novel

Spilt Milk

Spilt Milk