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Celebration

Ivan Angelo author Thomas Colchie translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:19th Jun '03

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In the early morning of March 31, 1970 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the annual birthday celebration of a prominent and wealthy young artist is taking place; and a train docked in Plaza Station filled with starving, drought-stricken migrant workers seeking relief gets turned away by the authorities, sparking a riot. From these seemingly unrelated events, Ivan Angelo's remarkable debut novel connects and implicates the lives of a complex of characters spanning three decades of tumultuous social and political history in twentieth-century Brazil. But with the central event - the celebration - missing, the reader is thrust into the middle of an intricate puzzle, left to construct the story from the evidence that accrues in a range of comic, unnverving, misleading and tragic episodes.

"The book demands a serious commitment from its readers, but it offers such a feast of literary rewards..."--Quill & Quire

ISBN: 9781564782908

Dimensions: 214mm x 164mm x 16mm

Weight: 267g

203 pages