Lost Samba: Memoirs of Brazil His British-Jewish parents, had moved to a booming Rio de Janeiro in the wake of World War II, and would soon prosper. It is an easy, yet multi-layered read, a must if you want to become friends with Brazil. Featuring the sixties, the seve
| TITLE | : | Lost Samba: Memoirs of Brazil |
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| RATING | : | 4.85 (107 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | B00791OM34 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | - |
| PAGES | : | 0 Pages |
| PUBLISH | : | 2012-02-13 |
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Passed in colorful Rio de Janeiro, Lost Samba is a poignant memoir of Brazil. Featuring the sixties, the seventies and the eighties, the book gives a powerful insight into a period when the current host of the summer Olympics struggled out of a dictatorship to discover itself as a free and democratic society. Lost Samba also describes how the author’s trials to gain his own Brazilian identity as the son of British immigrants in this complex and fascinating country. It is an easy, yet multi-layered read, a must if you want to become friends with Brazil.
Richard Klein was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1962 – the same year that the Rolling Stones and the Beatles recorded their first singles and the same year that Brazil would win its second FIFA world cup. His British-Jewish parents, had moved to a booming Rio de Janeiro in the wake of World War II, and would soon prosper. They
EDITORIAL :
About the Author The son of British-Jewish parents, Richard Klein was born in Rio de Janeiro 1962. He studied economics in Brazil but now works as a computer graphics artist and has contributed to the production of numerous blockbuster films. He is an accomplished musician, with some 400,000 hits on Youtube. As well as Rio de Janeiro, Richard has lived in Paris, Lisbon, Los Angeles, São Paulo and Glasgow. He is now is based in London.
REVIEW :
Mr. I loved our six friends, plus all the secondary characters that showed up along the way. Almost as if this was a training ground for the jungles of Malaysia and later South Vietnam, he would travel on horseback long distances on open plains without landmarks, never getting lost. ANTHONY'S FIRE, we didn't really get to see much of the alternate world and, in fact, spent a lot of time in a different dimension altogether. Wagner's participation in the 1848 revolutions) or where they directly affected their music. Although the Lost Samba takes the form of a memoir it offers powerful historical and political insights into the recent history of the `sleeping giant'. I heard great reviews on both books and to me, it didn't matter which book I got because they would work the same anyway. Or does he? Anna is great. The appendix includes several dark Merits (mostly related to ghosts) and Night
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