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title: "The Slum (Library of Latin America) Paperback – June 1, 2000"
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# The Slum (Library of Latin America) Paperback – June 1, 2000

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- **What is this?** The Slum (Library of Latin America) Paperback – June 1, 2000 by aluísio azevedodavid h. rosenthalrichard grahamalfonso romano de sant'anna
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Sex, Lies and Rio-scape
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2016*

I've been a fan of Brazilian literature for a long time, but only recently heard of THE SLUM from a Brazilian correspondent on Amazon.  I ordered it and read it.  Wow ! This is a really rich novel.  First of all, it grants the reader a look at Brazilian (or at least Rio de Janeiro) society in the 19th century.  At that time, Machado de Assis wrote of more refined, delicate circles, Euclides da Cunha wrote specifically of a certain 19th century historical incident.  But Azevedo focuses mostly on lower class manners and existence with a rich soup of food, music, dress, work, love and sex.  As far as the last goes, the contrast with Anglo-Saxon writers of the same period is amazing.  Secondly, the novel doesn't focus on one person alone, but on a whole group---a miserly Portuguese immigrant who scrounges and scrimps his way to the top, his black slave mistress, a Portuguese stonecutter who falls for a Bahian mulatta, numerous laundrywomen and numerous lesser characters.  The sum of their lives is the main topic of the book.  Thirdly, the author covers the hot topics of Brazil of that period---slavery and racism, the contrast between European immigrants and native-born or mixed race Brazilians.  The realism is palpable on every page, the dialogue lively, and the characters well-drawn.  It seemed to me that Jorge Amado owed a lot to Azevedo in both style and content.  If you like realist novels of any nationality, you'll definitely fall for this one.  The ending, highly ironic, is totally unexpected---it is as if the whole book takes a sudden turn.  It's hard to believe that Azevedo is so completely unknown in the English-speaking world.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Lucky Find
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2001*

I read about this book in one of the many book review publications I read. The reviewer correctly called it a masterpeice. Apparently only one other person read that review or perhaps she found it on her own. We were both lucky. It is a book so well worth reading that it is hard to find enough suitable words of praise yet it is unknown. This book throbs with the colors, odors and sounds of a Brazilian slum: the excitement, the perfumes, the  sexuality and the despair. It is deceptively easy to read. In fact, it almost finishes too quickly.  One wants to continue to bathe one' senses in the luxurious words.  This is not to say that the reader's morality and intellect is not also engaged. It is a scathing commentary on Brazilian attitudes towards race and the poor during the early 20th century. The reader cannot help but recognize that thhese attitudes are still with us in the early 21st century. However, Azevedo does not preach to us.  He simply presents us with the issues, quietly, even deceptively. We do not know how deeply we have thought and felt until the last page.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interesting
  

*by J***2 on Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2013*

This book was required for a class I am taking about the History of Brazil, it was actually an interesting read.

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