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The Collector of Leftover Souls Eliane Brum

The Collector of Leftover Souls By Eliane Brum

The Collector of Leftover Souls by Eliane Brum


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From Brazil's answer to Svetlana Alexeivich: a powerful glimpse into the lives of ordinary Brazilians.

The Collector of Leftover Souls Summary

The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil by Eliane Brum

Welcome to the favela, welcome to the rainforest, welcome to the real Brazil. This is the Brazil where a factory worker is loyal to his company for decades, only to find out that they knew the product he was making would eventually poison him. This is the Brazil where the mothers of the favela expect their sons to die as victims of the drug trade while still in their teens. This is the Brazil where the women initiated into the old Amazonian tradition of 'baby-pulling' deliver babies in their own time, far away from the drugs and scalpels of the modern hospital. In the company of award-winning journalist Eliane Brum, we meet the individuals struggling to stay afloat in a society riven by inequality and violence, and witness the resilience of spirit and commitment to life that makes Brazil one of the most complicated, most exhilarating places on earth.

About Eliane Brum

Eliane Brum is a Brazilian journalist, writer and documentarist. She writes regularly for El Pais and the Guardian and has won more than 40 international awards for reporting. She is the author of a novel, three non-fiction books and a collection of her newspaper columns. She is also the director/ co-director of three documentaries, including Laerte-Se, about the transgender cartoonist for Netflix. Diane Grosklaus Whitty is a translator of Brazilian Portuguese, specializing in the social sciences, history, and public health. She has also translated prose and poetry, with her translations appearing in The Guardian, The Lancet, History Today, and Litro.

Additional information

GOR010196257
9781846276644
1846276640
The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil by Eliane Brum
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Granta Books
2019-11-07
240
N/A
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