Frei Betto

Broschiertes Buch

Hotel Brasil

The Mystery of the Severed Heads

Übersetzer: Soutar, Jethro

Beschreibung

The police investigate a series of beheadings at a Rio de Janiero family hotel, whose residents include a flamboyant cross-dresser, an aspiring telenovela star, and a prostitute-turned-pimp.

Autor

Frei Betto: Frei Betto, born 1944, is a Brazilian writer, political activist, liberation theologian and Dominican friar. He was imprisoned for four years in the 1970s by the military dictatorship for smuggling people out of Brazil. In addition to work on eliminating hunger in Brazil, Frei Betto is involved in Brazilian politics. He worked for the government of President Lula da Silva as an advisor on prison policy and child hunger. This is his first novel. Jethro Soutar: Jethro Soutar, born in Sheffield, lives in London and has recently published two works of non-fiction, 'Ronaldinho: Football's Flamboyant Maestro' and a part biography, part chronicle of a film movement, entitled 'Gael García Bernal and the Latin American New Wave', published in July 2008. Soutar translated Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo for Bitter Lemon Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bitter Lemon Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 127mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9781908524270
• ISBN-10: 1908524278
• Artikelnr.: 37725456