Hotel Brasil by Frei Betto

Hotel Brasil by Frei Betto

A murder mystery set in a run-down family hotel in Rio de Janeiro. Rio is the perfect backdrop with its dictatorships, drug wars, child gangs and violent policing tactics. A witty, touching account of life at the edge of Brazilian society, dressed up as a thrilling murder investigation.

"A wonderful classic mystery novel written to the best standards of the genreBetween layers of the investigation of an unsolvable crime, Betto slips in a view of the real Brazil, raw and bleeding." Le Monde Diplomatique "A roman noir, but above all a bitter sweet novel, Hotel Brasil plunges the reader into the heart of a Rio that feeds on its people." Metro

Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, political activist, liberation theologian, and Dominican friar who was born in 1944. In the 1970s, the military dictatorship imprisoned him for four years for smuggling people out of Brazil. Frei Betto is involved in Brazilian politics in addition to his work on eradicating hunger in Brazil. He was an advisor on jail policy and child hunger for President Lula da Silva's government. It's his debut novel, and it's a good one.

Jethro Soutar: Jethro Soutar was born in Sheffield and now lives in London. He has recently authored two volumes of non-fiction, 'Ronaldinho: Football's Flamboyant Master' and 'Gael Garc12a Bernal and the Latin American New Wave,' both of which were released in July 2008. For Bitter Lemon Press, Soutar translated Ernesto Mallo's Needle in a Haystack.

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ISBN 13	9781908524270
ISBN 10	1908524278
Title	Hotel Brasil
Author	Frei Betto
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bitter Lemon Press
Year published	2014-03-20
Number of pages	288
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