Celebration
By Ivan Angelo
1975
First Published
3.96
Average Rating
224
Number of Pages
In the early morning of March 31, 1970 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the annual birthday celebration of a prominent and wealthy young artist is taking place; and a train docked in Plaza Station filled with starving, drought-stricken migrant workers seeking relief gets turned away by the authorities, sparking a riot. From these seemingly unrelated events, Ivan Angelo's remarkable debut novel connects and implicates the lives of a complex of characters spanning three decades of tumultuous social and political history in twentieth-century Brazil. But with the central event - the celebration - missing, the reader is thrust into the middle of an intricate puzzle, left to construct the story from the evidence that accrues in a range of comic, unnverving, misleading and tragic episodes.
Avg Rating
3.96
Number of Ratings
112
5 STARS
27%
4 STARS
48%
3 STARS
21%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
2%
goodreads
