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...
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 sp...
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
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 tru...
