Rio de Janeiro
Subtitle: extreme city
By: Luiz Eduardo Soares ; translated by Anthony Doyle
Contributors: Doyle, Anthony (Translator), translator
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781846148026
Subjects: Social conditions
Work titles: Rio de Janeiro
Description: Luiz Eduardo Soares does for Rio what Suketu Mehta's Maximum City did for Bombay. A book as rich and sprawling as the seductive metropolis it evokes, Rio de Janeiro builds a kaleidoscopic portrait of this city of extremes, and its history of conflict and corruption. Award-winning novelist, ex-government minister and sociologist, Luiz Eduardo Soares tells the story of Rio through the everyday lives of its people: gangsters and police, activists, politicians and struggling migrant workers, each with their own version of the city. Taking us on a journey into Rio's intricate world of favelas, beaches and corridors of power, Soares reveals one of the most extraordinary cities in the world in all its seething, agonistic beauty.
Notes: Originally published as Rio de Janeiro: Historias de vida e morte by Companhia das Letras, Brazil, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the Portuguese.