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Includes the name: ELIANE BRUM

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Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home? (2021) — Contributor — 33 copies
Dignidade! (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2012) — Contributor — 3 copies

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"The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections" is a collection of short pieces by journalist Eliane Brum, translated by Diane Grosklaus. The book itself - and each individual story - are easy to read.

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.
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mvblair | 1 other review | Dec 8, 2022 |
Uma repórter em busca dos acontecimentos que não viram notícia e das pessoas que não são celebridades. Uma cronista à procura do extraordinário contido em cada vida anônima. Uma escritora que mergulha no cotidiano para provar que não existem vidas comuns. O mendigo que jamais pediu coisa alguma. O carregador de malas do aeroporto que nunca voou. O macaco que ao fugir da jaula foi ao bar beber uma cerveja. O álbum de fotografias atirado no lixo que começa com uma moça de família e termina com uma corista. O homem que comia vidro, mas só se machucava com a invisibilidade. Essas fascinantes histórias da vida real fizeram formam uma obra que emociona pela sensibilidade da prosa de Eliane Brum e pela agudeza do olhar que a repórter imprime aos seus personagens – todos eles tão extraordinariamente reais que parecem saídos de um livro de ficção.… (more)
 
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SALADELEITURA_CEFC | Oct 5, 2022 |
Eliane Brum and her translator Diane Grosklaus Whitty are great poets of the people. Eliane Brum's transports us to the margins to bring us to the center of what it means to be human. In spite ot the deep sadness in these stories, I was felt more hopeful for humanity than I have in a long time.
 
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mermind | 1 other review | Nov 20, 2020 |

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