Why a Booktrail?
A Brazilian novelist goes missing and the search is a cryptic one
Ways to Disappear
What you need to know before your trail
Beatriz Yagoda, a novelist from Brazil goes missing in a park somewhere in Copacabana. Worried, her American translator Emma flies immediately to Rio, and starts the search with Beatriz’s two grown children .
But as the trio begins to uncover the bizarre and troubling affairs Beatriz has left in her wake — an outstanding gambling debt, a rapacious loan shark, and the author’s long-time editor who is desperate for the next Yagoda manuscript — they realise their search for her is far more cryptic than they could have imagined. Are the secrets to Beatriz s disappearance hidden in her enigmatic novels? Or are her words obscuring more than they reveal?
Travel Guide
Brazil and Rio de Janiero
Galeao’s Airport
Stepping off the plane, the familiar stink of airports, car exhuasts and guavas seems to assault her. “To arrive in Rio was to remember that one had a body and brought it everywhere”
Ilha Grande
She takes about a prison, the Ilha Grande, the setting of a story of one of Beatriz’s novels where she learned Portuguese. This island prison is ahas an night orchestra of lizards she says. The Taxi driver says it’s called The Devil’s Cauldron but Emma thinks the title is “The New Moon”
Brazil
“By noon, Beatriz had written in her first novel, the heat in Brazil was an animal’s mouth. It would swallow anything to feed itself.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Ways to Disappear
Author/Guide: Idra Novey Destination: Brazil, Rio de Janiero
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