Buying Brazil

Yes, Brazil is an exotic place filled with music and color. Some have recently heard there are grey clouds floating in Brazil’s brilliant blue sky. But none of us, not even Carleton Matthews, would expect thick black clouds hidden behind the grey nor dark shadows around Brazil’s sunlit corners in which danger and death patiently wait. Shadows masked by wide smiles, sparkling eyes and soft warm flesh. Eyes of every color but very few as full with emerald green magic as Alana’s when she led Carleton from safety into Brazil’s danger-filled night.

Tall handsome Carleton, a titled British merchant banker, and captivating Alana, the living reality of Brazil’s mythical beauties carefully preserved in the minds and hopes of so many around the world. Their early acquaintance grows from mutual lust through romance to engagement to marry while ugly truths from Brazil’s post-redemocratization political life press in from all sides threatening to destroy their future. Buying Brazil is their story and is also the story of the complexities facing so many in their struggle against the violent inertia of a fading military dictatorship. Hopes press them forward believing they will find the path back to peaceful todays, blissful nights and rich tomorrows filled with opportunities for good and most disappointingly evil.

Enjoy the story’s broad scope, it’s complex captivating characters and it’s uniquely tantalizing Brazilian setting. Do so while considering whether you want to experience all that Brazilian reality has to offer particularly, if like Alana and Carl, you undertake 'Buying Brazil'. ‘Small Press Book Watch’ described ‘Buying Brazil’ as “inherently fascinating and unfailingly entertaining”. Surely you will agree.