Rubem Fonseca

• Apr-2014
• / Thriller
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Rubem Fonseca’s Crimes of August offers the first serious literary treatment of the cataclysmic events of August 1954, arguably the most turbulent month in Brazilian history. A rich novel, both culturally and historically, Crimes of August tells tw...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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In these seventeen stories by one of Brazil s foremost living authors, Fonseca introduces readers with unsurpassed candor and keenness of observation to a kaleidoscopic, often disturbing world. A hunchback sets his lascivious sights on seducing a bea...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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The stories in "Taker" range across Fonseca's career, all exploring the modern landscape of Rio de Janeiro, a city whose vast disparities in wealth, social standing, and prestige are untenable. In these, rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, w...

• Jun-1998
• / General Fiction
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An international best-seller by a Brazilian novelist follows the absurd and compelling exploits of a film director who is intrigued by the mystery surrounding his newly attained precious gems and a curious offer to make a new film....

• Aug-1987
• / General Fiction
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Set in Rio, this novel looks at the underbelly of Brazilian urban society in which a lawyer, working on the murder case of two prostitutes, finds the case widening as details of sadism, cocaine smuggling, and multiple murders come to light...