Title: Heliopolis
First published: 2009
Description: A brilliantly original rags-to-riches tale, reminiscent of City of God, by the award-winning author of The Amnesia Clinic.As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now twenty-seven, he works high above the above the sprawling metropolis of Sao Paulo for a vacuous 'communications company'. But this is not his world, and this is not a simple rags-to-riches story: Ludo's destiny moves him around like a chess piece, showing him both extremities of opulent excess and abject poverty, taking him to the brink of madness and brutality.
Subjects: Literature, Fiction, Social conditions, Marketing personnel, Success, Psychological aspects, Fiction, general, Brazil, fiction
LC classification: PR6119.C39 H45 2009