

Spilt Milk
Author: Chico Buarque, Alison Entrekin
Narrator: Buck Schirner
Unabridged: 4 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/04/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Chico Buarque, Alison Entrekin
Narrator: Buck Schirner
Unabridged: 4 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/04/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
A two-time winner of the Prêmio Jabuti, Brazil’s most prestigious literary award, Buarque has written acclaimed novels, plays, and poetry, and is a legendary figure in Latin American music. He lives in Rio de Janeiro.
An old man dying in a hospital and on morphine, reminisces to himself and to the nurses about his life. So the entire book is basically a diatribe interspersed with remarks about his care and his feelings about other patients he doesn’t like. His life was on the downhill side of great ancestors who......more
Um livro de conforto, agradável de se ler a beira mar e com sabor a abandono. Narra a história de um homem que relembra os seus tempos de glória. Das origens nobres da sua família que remotam à época dos imperadores. A exploração escrava. Mas principalmente evoca a um amor nostálgico. A risonha Mati......more
Critically acclaimed by the literary critics as an 'outstanding novel of our time', Spilt Milk has a hundred year old man in a public hospital non-linearly recounting his life, from the Brazilian upper classes to his great grandson being a small time drug dealer and all of that in between especially......more
Chico Buarque is a multi-faceted artist, acclaimed as a playwright, but principally as a musician; his album “Caravanes” was ranked quite highly by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone and his lyrical and musical cleverness earned him not only recognition from the world music press but the Brazili......more
Estava com esse livro aqui desde minha última viagem ao Rio em que encontrei essa edição por cinco reais (!!!) num sebo em Copacabana, então achei a data em que Chico completa 75 anos oportuna para lê-lo. Considero Chico um dos nossos maiores poetas/compositores, mas nunca dei muita bola para seus ro......more