Colliding Brazils. "A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions" by Peter Robb. [review]
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2003-12
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Ireland, Rowan
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Australian Book Review
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Australian writer Peter Robb has once again written a whole, complex, foreign society into our comprehension. This time it is Brazil, its myriad worlds of experience, its cruelly stolid immobility and exhilarating changefulness, its very incoherence, somehow made accessible to our understanding.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, travel, Rowan Ireland, Midnight in Sicily, Andreotti, Palermo, Workers' Party, President Fernando Collor, P.C. Farias, Gilberto Freyre, Euclides da Cunha, Machado de Assis, The Masters and the Slaves, African, Indian, Portuguese, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Pernambucano, Paulista, Antonio Conselheiro, Zumbí, Zumbi, Dom Helder Câmara, Recife, ethnography, historical research, Lula, Palmares, Spanish Inquisition, colonial Church, Tupí Indians, Joan Didion, Miami, Robert Altman, Los Angeles, Short Cuts, Sao Paulo, Padre Cicero, Protestant Pentecostal
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Ireland, Rowan 2003. Colliding Brazils. Review of "A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions" by Peter Robb. 'Australian Book Review', No 257, December, 9-10.