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Rio Noir - Akashic Noir

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. — Featuring brand-new stories by: Tony Bellotto, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, MV Bill, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Guilherme Fiuza, Arthur Dapieve, Victori... more »a Saramago, Arnaldo Bloch, Adriana Lisboa, Alexandre Fraga, Marcelo Ferroni, Flávio Carneiro, Raphael Montes, and Luis Fernando Verissimo. All stories translated from Portuguese by Clifford Landers (Coelho?s The Alchemist, etc.).

From the Introduction by Tony Bellotto:

The images of Rio de Janeiro are well known: high-rises aligned along white sandy beaches, a blue sea, freshwater lakes, and luxuriant forests that stretch through winding mountains of stone; Sugar Loaf linked to the ground by cable cars in hypnotic shuttle; hang gliders crossing the sky in flights without destination; the open arms of Christ the Redeemer blessing a happy, cordial, mixed-race people ever ready to dance a samba or offer a welcoming smile to the tourists who move about in the streets admiring beautiful women shimmying nude atop floats in Carnival parades...Opa!

This is not a tourist guide. The city revealed in this book is a different Rio.

Even though famous landscapes are present in the pages of Rio Noir, what is exposed here is a world of shadows, blood, intrigue, violence, hideouts, and mystery (and also of humor, of course, as is necessary with any undertaking involving cariocas).

...Whether we have succeeded in deciphering an enigma with the dramas of our procurers, card readers, colonels, cops, traffickers, socialites, slum dwellers, embezzlers, tourists, brokers, detectives, journalists, politicians, assassins, editors, outlaws, travelers, coup plotters, writers, lovers, and everyday citizens, I don?t know. But we have surely added a large shadow to the sunny landscape of this wonderful city.

Tony Bellotto is the guitarist and principal songwriter for the famed Brazilian rock band Titãs (The Titans). Titãs was founded in the 1980s and has released twelve albums that have sold over six million copies; they continue to record and tour worldwide. He is also a best-selling novelist and host of a popular Brazilian TV show. Bellotto?s hugely successful Remo Bellini mystery series has sold 80,000 copies in Portuguese and was released as a major feature film, establishing him as the preeminent writer of Brazilian detective fiction. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

ISBN-13: 9781617753121
ISBN-10: 1617753122
Publication Date: 6/14/2016
Pages: 224
Edition: Tra
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Publisher: Akashic Books
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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Genres:

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Mystery >> Anthologies
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Mystery >> International Mystery & Crime
Travel >> Latin America >> South America >> Brazil >> General

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