Paradise City
$31.52
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2023
Summary
‘Brilliant’ The Times
Mario Leme is a low-ranking detective in the Sao Paulo civil police. Every day on the way to work he sets off early and drives through the favela known as Paraisopolis - Paradise City. It’s a pilgrimage: his wife Renata was gunned down at an intersection here a year ago, the victim of a stray bullet in a conflict between drug dealers.
One morning, parked near the place where Renata died, he sees an SUV careen out of control and flip over.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529426618 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529426618 |
| Author: | Joe Thomas |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Arcadia Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 22mm |
| Series: | São Paulo Quartet |
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Joe Thomas, who lived in S
Joe Thomas, who lived in São Paulo for a decade, uses his first-hand knowledge to convincingly bring the city to life – Nick Caistor * Latinolife *Great crime fiction hinges on a sense of place, and after returning to London after ten years living in the world in which he’s set his sophisticated debut, Thomas proves an adroit guide to a city that has developed at dizzying speed * GQ *
About The Author
Joe Thomas
JOE THOMAS was born in Hackney in 1977. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Sao Paulo quartet - Paradise City, Gringa, Playboy, and Brazilian Psycho - and Bent, which was a Guardian Best Book of 2020 and an Irish Times pick of the best crime fiction of 2020. His new novel, White Riot, the start of a trilogy set in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s, is to be published by Arcadia in January 2023, and will be followed by Red Menace and True Blue. Joe lives in London with his partner and son, and teaches at City, University of London.
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