false 402238 0 0 762090 1879181509 9781879181502 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178133668m/762090.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178133668s/762090.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762090.The_Giza_Power_Plant_Technologies_of_Ancient_Egypt 3.93 28 402238 4.04 51 11 1998 818948 0807849766 9780807849767 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178664118m/818948.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178664118s/818948.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/818948.Brutality_Garden_Tropicalia_and_the_Emergence_of_a_Brazilian_Counterculture 4.16 19 Focusing on a group of musicians from Bahia, an impoverished state in northeastern Brazil noted for its vibrant Afro-Brazilian culture, Christopher Dunn reveals how artists including Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Zé created this movement together with the musical and poetic vanguards of Sao Paulo, Brazil's most modern and industrialized city. He shows how the tropicalists selectively appropriated and parodied cultural practices from Brazil and abroad in order to expose the fissure between their nation's idealized image as a peaceful tropical "garden" and the daily brutality visited upon its citizens.

]]> 402238 4.04 51 11 2001 1409552 1551054752 9781551054759 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1409552.Tree_Tall_Shrubs_Of_Illinois 4.00 2 665199 3.82 17 5 402238 4.04 51 11 2007 1571805 0813018218 9780813018218 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185350493m/1571805.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185350493s/1571805.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1571805.Brazilian_Popular_Music_and_Globalization 5.00 1 402238 4.04 51 11 2001 4413817 0860230325 9780860230328 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4413817.The_Book_of_Huntingdon 0.0 0 402238 4.04 51 11 1977 2791547 0953500705 9780953500703 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2791547.Take_Five_and_Pass_First_Time_The_Essential_Independent_Manual_for_Students_Preparing_for_the_Grade_Five_Theory_of_Music_Examination_of_the_Associated_Board_of_the_Royal_Schools_of_Music 0.0 0 402238 4.04 51 11 1999 5453384 0292706480 9780292706484 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5453384.First_World_Third_Class_and_Other_Tales_of_the_Global_Mix 0.0 0 "Reading Rheda's short stories and novel has been a delightful discovery for me.... Her style is full of wit, delicious and sometimes devastating irony, and captivating poetic imagery. Her book, in short, will be hard for readers to put down."
—David George, Professor of Spanish, Lake Forest College
Regina Rheda is a contemporary award-winning Brazilian writer whose original voice and style have won her many admirers. First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix presents some of her finest and most representative work to an English-speaking readership. Stories from the Copan Building consists of eight tales set in a famous residential building in São Paulo. The stories, like the apartment complex, are a microcosm of modern-day urban Brazil. They are witty, consistently caustic, and never predictable.

Also in this volume is the poignant and often hilarious novel First World Third Class. It depicts young middle-class professionals and artists who, as opportunities in Brazil diminished, opted to leave their country, even if it meant taking menial jobs abroad. At the center of the narrative is Rita, a thirty-year-old aspiring filmmaker who migrates to England, and then Italy. She looks for work and love in all the wrong places, moving from city to city and from bed to bed.

The last three stories in this collection also happen to be among the author's most recent. "The Enchanted Princess" is an ironic title for a postfeminist tale of a South American woman being wooed to marry an old-world gentleman who promises to take care of her every need. "The Sanctuary" concerns the living conditions of immigrant workers and farm animals. Equally piquant in nature, "The Front" deals with ecology, labor environments, and gender politics.]]> 187729 5.00 1 1 236225 0.0 0 0 402238 4.04 51 11 566994 3.00 3 0 834115 0.0 0 0 1554284 0.0 0 0 2005