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  • MacLehose Press
  • MacLehose Press

Brazil, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Fiction in translation, Humour

A satirical crime adventure from Brazil's best-loved comic novelist.

A frustrated publisher receives a mysterious angst-ridden manuscript: 'a friend' must send it in installments; its contents would put the author in danger.

As he pieces together the story, he learns that the author is the wife of one of the two Martelli brothers - gangsters who dominate a small town in the Brazilian interior. Surely her dark outpourings are a cry for help?

One by one, he dispatches his motley collection of friends to Frondosa - a town totally obsessed with five-a-side football - to investigate and to bring her to safety.

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Luis Fernando Verissimo

LuA s Fernando VerA ssimo is a satirist, cartoonist, translator, television writer, saxophonist, playwright and novelist. With over sixty published titles, he is one of the most popular of contemporary Brazilian writers.

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