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Written in Portuguese, this book's audience is limited. I certainly don't know whether any existing translation adequately captures the author's engaging, conversational tone, which still retains, to my eyes, a sense of formality and reserve, perhaps because of the sociohistorical context in which it was written and set.

This edition deserves comment. The size, face, and setting of the type make the work inviting. But the text has an extraordinary number of typos -- more than any published work (besides menus) that I've seen. Did the publishers simply scan the text from some other edition?]]>