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Leite Derramado

by Chico Buarque

Prémio Camões · 2019 · Winner
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Prémio Camões2019Winner

About This Book

A dying centenarian narrates his life to an invisible visitor, his unreliable memory drifting across four generations of Brazilian history from the empire to the present, a formally inventive and darkly comic masterpiece.

About the Author

Chico BuarqueBR

Chico Buarque de Hollanda is a Brazilian musician, novelist, and playwright born in 1944 in Rio de Janeiro. He is one of the most beloved and influential cultural figures in Brazilian history, celebrated both as a musician — the composer of hundreds of iconic Brazilian songs — and as a novelist of considerable sophistication. Buarque published his first novel Estorvo (Turbulence) in 1991 and has since published several more, including Benjamim (1995), Budapest (2003), Leite Derramado (Spilt Milk, 2009, Premio Jabuti), and O Irmão Alemão (My German Brother, 2014). Read more →

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