Eliane Brum
Author of A Vida Que Ninguem Ve (Em Portugues do Brasil)
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Works by Eliane Brum
Brasil Construtor de Ruinas - Um olhar sobre o pais de Lula a Bolsonaro (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 6 copies
Uma Duas - eBook 1 copy
Brésil 1 copy
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- Works
- 15
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 147
- Popularity
- #140,982
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 19
- Languages
- 2
Each piece goes into a small amount of detail about a particular underdog fighting against some aspect of Brazilian culture or government. There are stories about single mothers whose sons have been killed by gang violence, people with dementia living in a nursing home, and indigenous people losing a fight for their land. Each story is between four and ten pages.
I was very curious about the subjects. I wanted more details than Brum provided. While she wrote very poetically and very engagingly, she left out important descriptions and histories in favor of metaphors and good imagery.
Nevertheless, this is the sort of journalism I would like to see more of: human interest stories of people and their lives.… (more)