There's No Point in Dying - Francisco Maciel

In this kaleidoscopic novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiro - 'in the city of stray bullets, in the land of lost opportunities' - a gang member runs wildly through the streets not knowing he has only seven minutes left to live. Barflies, prostitutes, immigrants, a gay couple, a taxi driver, cops, a mobster, and more populate Francisco Maciel's first book to appear in English. Leaping back and forth across time and spiraling into the surreal, the novel coalesces around a brutal massacre. Maciel's... Zobrazit více