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7438224Via Ápiahttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/via-apia-9780374612993/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7035570/image.jpg?v=638794324859500000221287MXNFarrar, Straus and GirouxInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>From one of Brazils most acclaimed new literary stars, a twenty-first-century epic set in Rios largest favela.</strong></p><p>Life on the <em>morro</em>, the hill, is good. Five young peoplethe brothers Washington and Wesley and their friends Douglas, Murilo, and Biellive close to Rocinhas main avenue, Via Ápia, just a quick bus ride from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.</p><p>But the rhythms of their lives stutter and scratch when Brazils militarized police storm Rocinha as part of pacification efforts ahead of the upcoming World Cup and an influx of international tourists. <em>Via Ápia</em> charts the expectant anxiousness before the polices invasion, the chaos born from their occupation of the hill, and the aftermath of their silent withdrawal from the favela after one year.</p><p>Told in heated bursts and marked by the charged chronology of the protagonists lives, Geovani Martinss prodigious debut novel knits together the dramas and dreams of the favela during a peak of turbulent unrest. Like the <em>boom boom kat</em> of Brazilian funk, the unbridled ambitions and resolute friendships of these characters blare throughout <em>Via Ápia</em>, delivering a resonant counternarrative to the notion that violent interventions are the states only remedy to the afflictions of crime and poverty. The favela retorts: life, life is the answer.</p>...7067398Via Ápia221287https://www.gandhi.com.mx/via-apia-9780374612993/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7035570/image.jpg?v=638794324859500000InStockMXN99999PR_DIEbook2025Inglés