Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias

Manuel Antônio de Almeida

111 pages
0.5 MB
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Leonardo drifts through the streets, taverns and petty rackets of Rio in the time of the king. A comic novel of ordinary people that arrived decades ahead of Brazilian realism.

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