Hotel Brasil : the mystery of the severed heads
Betto, Frei, 1944-2014
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Rio de Janeiro. A family hotel whose clients reflect Brazilian society, multi-racial, with starkly contrasting backgrounds, and destitute. Rio is the perfect backdrop with its dictatorships, drug wats, child gangs, and violent policing tactics. The first victim is found decapitated in bed, the head lying on the floor of his room. An eerie Mona Lisa smile on the victim's face and no evidence of a struggle indicate a murderer received as a friend. Other hotel guests are eventually killed, all decapitated. A classical crime novel in one way but really an opportunity for the author to describe Brazilian society, especially those left behind.
Main title:
Hotel Brasil : the mystery of the severed heads / by Frei Betto ; translated by Jethro Soutar.
Author:
Betto, Frei, 1944-, authorSoutar, Jethro, translator
Imprint:
London : Bitter Lemon Press, 2014.
Collation:
256 pages
Notes:
Translated from the Portuguese.
ISBN:
9781908524270 (pbk)1908524278
Dewey class:
869.3'5
Local class:
FICMYS PBK
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
BRN:
612943