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Brazil Red Jean-Christophe Rufin

Brazil Red By Jean-Christophe Rufin

Brazil Red by Jean-Christophe Rufin


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An extraordinary adventure, set against a forgotten event of the Renaissance: the French colonization of Brazil.

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Brazil Red by Jean-Christophe Rufin

Brazil Red tells the story of two orphaned children, Just and Colombe, who are dragged off on the French colonizing expeditionthey are meant to learn the native languages and act as interpreters. Everything in this novel is outsized: the setting, a jungle still populated by cannibals; the characters, including Villegagnon, the expedition's eccentric leader, who might be a model for Cyrano or d'Artagnan; and the events, a dress rehearsal for the Wars of Religion ten years in the future. Packed with portraits, landscapes, and action, Brazil Red is a novel about coming of age and discovering love. On a deeper level, the story follows the destinies and decisions of Just and Colombe, presenting two conflicting views of man and nature. On one hand, a conquering European civilization, offering liberation but delivering death. On the other, the Indian world, with its sensuality, its harmony, its sense of the sacred, its continual call to happiness.

About Jean-Christophe Rufin

Jean-Christophe Rufin is a founder of Doctors without Borders and author of the prize-winning first novel The Abyssinian. He lives in France.

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CIN0393336549G
9780393336542
0393336549
Brazil Red by Jean-Christophe Rufin
Used - Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
2004-09-17
440
N/A
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