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The Incredible Brazilian
by Zulfikar Ghose
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover (1983-12-12)
ISBN: 0879512008
EAN: 9780879512002
Dewey Decimal #: 823.914
Hardcover: 320 pages
SKU: AManPro-0001431
Condition: Good
Comments: Ex-library item with usual markings. Tight Binding, Crisp Pages, Mylar covered dust jacket, two very small spots on outside page edge. Ships Today with Free Delivery Confirmation! Satisfaction Always Guaranteed!
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Customer Reviews
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A masterpiece of magical realism
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-08-06
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Zulfikar Ghose is without question the greatest Pakistani Latin American magical realist. This is probably the reason he is not better known, and the reason that this, his masterpiece, is sadly out of print. He is too hard to categorize.Set in 16th century Brazil, the novel is a brilliant exploration of ambition, greed, deception and lust. Lust perhaps being the most important of these, as the desire to possess a new and virgin continent is conflated with, and sometimes identical to, sexual desire. The language is beautiful, precise, sometimes arcane and always compelling. And although this novel contains serious reflections on important philosophical themes, the narrative drive never flags. As you read the ending, you will want to flip to Page One and begin again.
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