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Jose Costa has just attended the Anonymous Writers Congress in Istanbul and is on his way back to Rio when a bomb scare on his flight forces him to spend a night in Budapest. Fascinated by the Hungarian language - he is after all a ghost writer by trade and a man who lives by language - he spends the night watching television, trying to pick out words in this tongue, 'the only one the devil respects'. In charting Jose's life we enter a storytelling labyrinth, as his myth-making, love-making and essays into another culture become mired in the world where celebrities make reputations and...

The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based, "City of God" is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil s most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and lovebut also a place where the samba beat rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. When "City of God" erupted on screens worldwide, it became one of the most critically and commercially...

A sprawling, magnificently told epic about the history of gang life in Rio's favelas. The original novel of the hugely acclaimed film, based on a true story