"BRAZIL RED tells the story of two orphaned children, Just and Colombe, who are dragged off on the French colonizing expedition--they are meant to learn the native languages and act as interpreters. Everything in this novel is outsized: the setting, a jungle still populated by cannibals; the characters, including Villegagnon, the expedition's eccentric leader, who might be a mo...(展开全部)

"BRAZIL RED tells the story of two orphaned children, Just and Colombe, who are dragged off on the French colonizing expedition--they are meant to learn the native languages and act as interpreters. Everything in this novel is outsized: the setting, a jungle still populated by cannibals; the characters, including Villegagnon, the expedition's eccentric leader, who might be a mo...(展开全部)

塞尔吉奥·布阿尔克·德·奥兰达 (Sérgio Buarque de Holanda; 1902—1982) ---------------------------- 巴西著名的历史学家、文学评论家和记者，同时也被认为是 20 世纪巴西伟大的知识分子。

莉利亚·莫里茨·施瓦茨（Lilia Moritz Schwarcz），巴西圣保罗大学人类学教授，普林斯顿大学拉丁美洲研究所西班牙语和葡萄牙语语言和文化系客座教授，多部作品被译为英文。 埃洛伊萨·穆尔热尔·斯塔林（Heloisa Murgel Starling），巴西米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学教授。 熊芳华，湖北大学外国语学院讲师，该校巴西研究中心研究人员，译有《巴西的强国抱负》。

Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Brazil: A Biography, written by two of ...(展开全部)

Here is a substantially revised and updated English-language version of the only comprehensive, scientific treatment of Brazil's 1635 bird species. Written by the then dean of Brazilian ornithologists and published in Brazil in 1985, it not only lists every individual Brazilian species and provides detailed accounts for most of them but also gives an extensive treatment of th...(展开全部)

They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabe...(展开全部)

艾拉•莱文，美国当代著名小说家、剧作家。毕业于纽约大学，曾在美军通讯部队服役。出道作《死前之吻》（A Kiss Before Dying）大获成功，与翁贝托•埃科的《玫瑰的名字》、约瑟芬•铁衣的《时间的女儿》一起被誉为“西方三大现象级侦探小说”。一九六七年根据妻子怀孕经验写成《失婴记》（Rosemary’s Baby），被波兰大导演罗曼•波兰斯基搬上银幕，带给美国文坛与好莱坞影业难以抹灭的影响。一九七六的惊世之作《巴西来的男孩》（The Boys From Brazil）提前预告了世纪末崛起的高科技基因工程，兼具科幻与间谍两种类型小说特色。一九八○年以《死亡陷阱》（Death Trap）拿下“美国最佳剧作奖”。一九九七年出版《失婴记续集》（Son of Rosemary）后宣告封笔。莱文一生作品不多，除了九部剧作之外，他只创作了七部长篇小说，然而每一...(展开全部)

The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy in the twentieth century. In a completely new chapter, his son Sergio Faust...(展开全部)

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slop...(展开全部)