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Title: TURBULENCE
By: Chico Buarque, Peter Bush (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0747533571
ISBN 13: 9780747533573
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Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 1 June, 1997
Translated from: Portuguese
Description: The narrator is haunted by nostalgia for the places of his childhood set in a city that can only be Rio de Janeiro. A drop-out from the privileged world of luxury beach apartments and sybaritic obsessions, he has entered the 'other' Brazil of wretched poverty and petty crime.
Synopsis: The narrator of this tale is haunted by nostalgia for the places of his childhood set in a city that can only be Rio de Janeiro. A drop-out from the privileged world of luxury beach apartments and sybaritic obsessions, he has entered the 'other' Brazil of wretched poverty and petty crime.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Returns: Returnable
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