Chico Buarque est un artiste brésilien acclamé, principalement réputé pour sa musique, qui offre souvent des commentaires sociaux, économiques et culturels avisés sur le Brésil. Ses compositions se distinguent par un jeu de mots ingénieux et une touche d'introspection mélancolique, explorant les complexités de la condition humaine. Au-delà de la musique, il s'est également distingué comme dramaturge et romancier, faisant preuve d'une remarquable polyvalence et d'un vif engagement envers les problèmes de société. L'œuvre artistique de Buarque reflète une profonde sensibilité littéraire et une perspective unique sur l'expérience brésilienne.
José Costa est nègre : il passe des journées bien remplies à écrire toutes sortes de textes signés par d'autres. Il garde le secret absolu sur son travail et sur ses commanditaires. Lors d'un congrès à Budapest, il est fasciné par le hongrois et par une Hongroise qui deviendra sa maîtresse et son professeur. Sa famille lui devient étrangère et il trahit alors son secret professionnel.
Ciccio already has many problems: romantic failure, an older brother who seems intent on breaking the heart of every beautiful woman in São Paulo, a distant and larger-than-life father. When Ciccio finds, among the many of his father's books that line the walls of their house, a troubling letter dated 'December 21, 1931. Berlin', his existential crisis only intensifies. It seems that his father once had a child with another woman - a German son whose fate remains unclear. Ciccio sets out on a mission to locate his lost half-brother, and to win the respect of his father. But as Brazil's military government cracks down on dissent, and rumours of arrests and disappearances spread, while Ciccio has been out looking for his German brother, he finds that he has taken his eye off his immediate family... In writing My German Brother, acclaimed Brazilian novelist and musician Chico Buarque was driven by the desire to find out what happened to his own German half-brother - whether he survived the war in a bomb-ravaged Berlin, whether he had joined the ranks of the Hitler Youth. His novel has been a project of a lifetime, one that makes use of what happened, what might have happened, and pure imagination, in order to weave together the threads of narrative and arrive at a truth.
'I read Spilt Milk in a single night, awed and deeply moved...' Nicole KraussWinner of both of Brazil's major literary prizes, Spilt Milk is a visceral account of loss, memory and longing.
Photographic model turned minor actor Benjamin Zambraia feels mocked by his spurious sort of fame. He is also haunted by Castana Beatriz, a love he lost 30 years before, but whose double has begun to crop up around town. Could Arieta Muse be Castana's daughter?
Ein Mann wird verfolgt, doch weiß er nicht, vor wem oder was er flieht. Seine Flucht führt ihn von der High-Society zu einem Schlupfwinkel in den Bergen, doch nirgends gelingt es ihm, sich der Gewalt zu entziehen, bis er schließlich selbst ein Verbrechen begeht. Dieser Roman des berühmten brasilianischen Sängers und Liedermachers führt uns ein Land vor, in dem Gewalt, von Opfern wie Tätern, als selbstverständlicher Bestandteil des Lebens betrachtet wird.