The Beautiful Empire (The incredible Brazilian #2) -

Zulfikar Ghose

Tusk Overlook

1984

383 páginas

12h 46m

ISBN-10: 0879519606

Published for the first time in America, this is Ghose's wickedly funny adventure story of that amorous rogue-hero, Gregório Peixoto da Silva Xavier, a reincarnation of the seventeenth-century hero of "The Incredible Brazilian". "The Beautiful Empire" is Brazil in the second half of the nineteenth century, and money is growing on trees - the rubber trees whose precious sap is wanted all over the world. As the proprietor of a fleet of luxurious floating brothels, Gregório watches as the wealthy become intoxicated with success, only to lose their shirts - literally and figuratively - in one mighty crash.