Spilt milk
By: Chico Buarque ; translated by Alison Entrekin
Contributors: Entrekin, Alison
Publisher: Grove Press; Distriuted by Publishers Group West
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780802120083
Subjects: Families; Consciousness; Hospital patients; Family relationships; History; Fiction
Work titles: Leite derramado
Description: Centenarian Eulalio Assumpcao has reached the end of his long life. From his modest bed in a Rio public hospital, as his mind falters, he grandly recounts his past to passing nurses, his visiting daughter and the whitewashed ceiling. His eccentric stories are seemingly nothing more than the ramblings of a dying man, yet as he overlaps each confused memory, they begin to coalesce into a brilliant and bitter eulogy for himself and for Brazil. Charting his own fall from aristocracy, Eulalio's feverish monologue sprawls across the last century, from his empire-building ancestors to his drug-deali
Notes: "First published in Brazil as Leite Derramado in 2009 by Companhia das Letras"-- T.p. verso.

Translated from the Portuguese of: Leite derramado.