Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Barreto, Lima; Carlyon, Mark; Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
| Date: | 1/27/2015 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A deftly satirical masterpiece about a man and a country caught in a violent clash between sanity and madness
PolicarpoQuaresma—fastidious civil servant, dedicated patriot, self-styledvisionary—is a defender of all things Brazilian, full of schemes toimprove his beloved homeland. Yet somehow each of his ventures resultsin ridicule and disaster. Quixotic and hapless, Quaresma’s dreams willeventually be his undoing.
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