Why a Booktrail?
2000s: You can FEEL the dust & heat coming right off the page. PHEW! Very evocative of the dusty raw emotive side to Brazil and the heart of its people.
Dry Season
What you need to know before your trail
On the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies São Tiago. It is a place at the centre of a battle between gangsters and big business. For people with nowhere else to go.
Sam is a priest who has left England to help people but he is scarred by what he’s seen and now when a man lies bleeding on the ground, he is not sure if the fight is to save him or the city and its dark heart.
Travel Guide
Imagine the backwaters of Brazil, their heat, danger and turmoil. That’s the scenery as well as the lives of the people who live and work there. The people who hide in the shadows waiting for their next lawless day to begin in a country which has an untamed heart at its core.
And this is how we punish a cheater in São Tiago? I said. ‘We stick a knife in him and give him his rites?
Sam is clearly on a personal as well as a physical journey and it is both these journeys that we are taken on in the book. The backdrop may be stunning but the backwaters of Brazil hold both known and unknown dangers –
The only sound was the gentle sigh of the river behind us, and the constant chorus of the cicadas
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Dry Season
Guide: Dan Smith Destination: Brazil Departure Time: 2000s
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