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An uproarious novel about a man's often sordid, lifelong search for his possibly imaginary half brotherMy German Brother is the renowned Brazilian musician and author Chico Buarque's attempt to reconstruct through fiction his obsessive lifelong search for a lost sibling.In 1960s São Paulo, the teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a journalist and scholar, has spent his lif...

Fascinating, shape-shifting . . . This potent, meandering mixture of text and image, fact and fiction.' Daily TelegraphSão Paulo, the 60s. Ciccio's life is full of challenges. And when he finds, buried in the library of his distant and larger-than-life father, a troubling letter dated 'December 21, 1931. Berlin', his existential crisis only intensifies.It seems that his father once had a child with a German woman, in Berlin - a son whose fate ...

Young Ciccio's life is full of challenges: romantic failure, an older brother who seems intent on breaking the heart of every beautiful woman in São Paulo, a distant and larger-than-life father. And when he finds, buried in his father’s vast library, a troubling letter dated ‘December 21, 1931. Berlin’, his existential crisis only intensifies.It seems that his father once had a child with another woman, in Berlin – a son whose fate remains unc...

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From world-renowned Brazilian writer Chico Buarque comes a stylish, imaginative tale of love, loss, and longing, played out across multiple generations of one Brazilian family. At once jubilant and painfully nostalgic, playful and devastatingly urgent, "Spilt Milk" cements Chico Buarque's reputation as a masterful storyteller. As Eulalio Assumpcao lies dying in a Brazilian public hospital, his daughter and the attending nurses are treated--whe...

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