Type: Novel
Narrative Type: Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Young Adults,Adults
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Book Title: Brasyl
Item Height: 198mm
Item Width: 154mm
Author: Ian McDonald
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Books
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Publication Year: 2008
Item Weight: 352g
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Brasyl by Ian McDonald 2008
Think Bladerunner in the tropics...
Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world's greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling.
Three separate stories follow three main characters:
--Edson is a self-made talent impressario one step up from the slums in a near future São Paulo of astonishing riches and poverty. A chance encounter draws Edson into the dangerous world of illegal quantum computing, but where can you run in a total surveillance society where every move, face, and centavo is constantly tracked?
--Marcelina is an ambitious Rio TV producer looking for that big reality TV hit to make her name. When her hot idea leads her on the track of a disgraced World Cup soccer goalkeeper, she becomes enmeshed in an ancient conspiracy that threatens not just her life, but her very soul.
--Father Luis is a Jesuit missionary sent into the maelstrom of 18th-century Brazil to locate and punish a rogue priest who has strayed beyond the articles of his faith and set up a vast empire in the hinterland. In the company of a French geographer and spy, what he finds in the backwaters of the Amazon tries both his faith and the nature of reality itself to the breaking point.
Three characters, three stories, three Brazils, all linked together across time, space, and reality in a hugely ambitious story that will challenge the way you think about everything.
