Rio de Janeiro
Extreme City
- Published: 5 May 2016
- ISBN: 9780141976259
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 300
Luiz Eduardo Soares is the most insightful observer of Rio I have ever read. He had the unique combination of expert analysis, a compassionate gaze, and a gripping writing style. This is a book that will take its place among the great city chronicles of our time.
Suketu Mehta
The picture built by Soares through first-hand tales of political corruption and Rio's drug gangs is almost guilt-inducingly compelling ... Soares's portrait of Brazil's byzantine corruption is as thrilling and depressing as The Wire
Robert Collins, Spectator
A vibrant, incisive book on Rio, which challenges the tourist-brochure clichés ... A polyphonic portrayal of the Brazilian metropolis as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants
Juanita Coulson, Lady
With months to go before it hosts the Olympics, the country is in chaos; the Rio 2016 infrastructure and political system is a mess. Luiz Edoardo Soares is well placed to explain and illustrate ... he casts a melancholic gaze at Brazil's most famous city ... Remarkable
John Kampfner, Observer
A fascinating account... What makes this book different is that Soares has been a player himself, so we get an insider's account... Recommended, even if you are not going
Paddy Kehoe, RTÉ Ten