The Club of Angels
Review by Flavio Luiz Gomes Some of the best Brazilian authors were invited to write stories with the seven capital sins as background; Luiz Fernando Verissimo, my favorite writer, tackled gluttony. Luis Fernando Verissimo (b. 1936) is best known for his chronicles and texts of humor, more precisely satire of manners, published daily in several […]
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
To reread an author I love is always a pleasure, to reread Jorge Amado is a rediscovery. All pages are filled with love, ambition, fear, loyalty, passion, powerful feelings that dominate the story of Gabriela and Nacib, and all other characters in this book that holds me from beginning to end. Every time I read […]