Books by Jo Soares and Complete Book Reviews
Jo Soares, Author, Clifford E. Landers, Translator , trans. from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers. Pantheon $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-40893-9
A television and film personality sometimes described as the David Letterman of Brazil, Soares offers readers a snapshot tour of 20th-century history in his amusing second novel. The tour's guide is Dmitri Korozec, a Bosnian-born political...
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Jo Soares, Author, Jose Eugenio Soares, Author, Clifford E. Landers, Translator Pantheon Books $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-40065-0
Soares, a TV talk-show host known as the ""Johnny Carson of Brazil,"" offers a story about Sherlock Holmes on the loose in Rio de Janeiro in 1886. The book has sold 400,000 copies in Brazil, but American readers--especially those spoiled by such...
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