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The Celebration (Latin American Literature Series)
The Celebration - Latin American Literature Series Author:Ivan Angelo 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 two seemingly un... more »related events, Ivan Ângelo?s remarkable 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 a puzzle, left to construct the story from the evidence that accrues in a range of comic, unnerving, misleading, and tragic episodes.« less
ISBN-13: 9781564782908 ISBN-10: 1564782905 Pages:203 Edition:1st Dalkey Archive E Rating: