The Incredible Brazilian: The Native PDF
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Brawling, bawdy, and picaresque, The Incredible Brazilian uses the opening of seventeenth-century Brazil as the setting for the adventures of one of literature’s least lovable but most likeable rogues: Gregório Peixoto da Silva Xavier.
The second son of a prosperous planter, Gregório is fourteen when the novel opens – a fop and a virgin, his self-esteem knows no bounds. Neither does his enterprise, and he soon rids himself of his unwanted innocence and embarks upon a series of wildly comic, wonderfully fantastical escapades.
By the novel’s end, Gregório has – if not honorably, then with great daring – made, lost, and made again several fortunes. Told with wry and mocking wit, Gregório’s life story is a delightfully outrageous ribald comedy, an absorbing and compelling adventure.
The Incredible Brazilian is the first volume in a trilogy that, following its hero through several incarnations, will culminate in the revolutionary politics of present-day Brazil.
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