- Prêmio Jabuti – Romance Literário 2004 · Shortlist
Budapest
Budapeste
Chico Buarque (born 1944)
Translated by Alison Entrekin
English editions
In EnglishBudapest
Grove Press · United States · 14 September 2004 · Hardcover · 192 pages
Budapest
Bloomsbury · United Kingdom · 2 August 2004 · Hardcover · 192 pages
* Affiliate link. As an Amazon Associate and a Bookshop.org affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases. The price stays the same for you.
Costa is the anonymous talent behind a Copacabana firm that sells texts to order, and his partner profits from him. Having just delivered a ghosted memoir for an eccentric German businessman, he finds himself unable to go on as before. Without quite intending it he starts producing serious work, and without quite intending it he lands in the Hungarian capital, hoping a language said to frighten even the devil can save him. Divided between Rio and Budapest, between two women and two books, he recounts his double life in his own voice, with dry, odd humour.
AI-generated summary
About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 176 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Brazil, Hungary
- First published
- 2003 by Companhia das Letras
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
9788535904178 (original)
9780747573654 (Bloomsbury, United Kingdom)
9780802117823 (Grove Press, United States)