# Rio de Janeiro

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- Book: [Rio de Janeiro](https://www.bookquiver.com/luiz-eduardo-soares/rio-de-janeiro) ([Rio de Janeiro.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/luiz-eduardo-soares/rio-de-janeiro.md))
- Authors: [Luiz Eduardo Soares](https://www.bookquiver.com/luiz-eduardo-soares)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-18-4614-802-6
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2016-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A book as rich and sprawling as the seductive metropolis it evokes, Rio de Janeiro builds a kaleidoscopic portrait of this city of extremes, and its history of conflict and corruption. Award-winning novelist, ex-government minister and sociologist, Luiz Eduardo Soares tells the story of Rio through the everyday lives of its people: gangsters and police, activists, politicians and struggling migrant workers, each with their own version of the city. Taking us on a journey into Rio's intricate world of favelas, beaches and corridors of power, Soares reveals one of the most extraordinary cities in the world in all its seething, agonistic beauty.