Hotel Brasil
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
Le roman commence par la découverte d’un cadavre qui a subi de bien étranges mutilations et aucune piste ne permet aux enquêteurs d’élaborer la moindre hypothèse. Rio de Janeiro, théâtre du crime, se prête totalement au mystère : la dictature, les mouvements de foules, l’arbitraire policier viennent se joindre à ce kaléidoscope du Brésil qu’est la pension de famille où se déroulent ces crimes mystérieux. Vie quotidienne, critique sociale, intrigue bien menée, personnages nombreux et variés, flash back historique pour mieux situer les personnages, Frei Betto nous fait voyager dans le Brésil contemporain et partager le quotidien des Cariocas.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in a dilapidated Rio de Janeiro hotel, Betto's first novel reads like a satire of an English country house mystery, as interpreted by Pedro Alm dovar. When the head of one of the hotel residents, an aging gemstone trader, turns up in a hallway with both eyes removed, the police summon bookish C ndido, who devotes much of his spare time to helping Rio's orphaned street kids, for interrogation. Other suspects at the hotel include Diamante Negro, a flamboyant, cross-dressing transformista; Madame Lar ncia, a retired prostitute turned pimp; and Rosaura dos Santos, who dreams of becoming a telenovela star. Betto, a liberation theologian and former political prisoner, provides the backstories for each of these characters and more, at times at the expense of narrative pace. Of course, the crime solving matters less than the book's revealing look at the marginalized underbelly of Brazilian society.
