200614: fascinating. beautiful. heartbreaking. sort of what the idea and contemporary actuality of Brazil means to me. chapter essay on São Paulo is clearest explanation of how this huge, disconnected, slightly horrific, maybe world-future, city came to be- and why this is not likely to change. and there is more to brazil than Brasilia, than modernism tropicale, than such a violently segregated economy and society...
140718: this is read 3 times. this is the book that made his name. it has been translated but i do not know how: a lot of the pleasure is in the voice, the unique version of Nigerian english used, per
if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 220611: this is probably the most academically accurate of the translations I have read of this book, but still prefer commentary o
120619: this is fascinating. this will reward future rereads, much as sex rewards repeats, for the author has ranged widely, focused, speculated, all the ways these concepts oppose and unite, all the