Name: The Heart That Bleeds
ISBN: 9780307787965

Alma Guillermoprieto

An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.

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The Heart That Bleeds

The Heart that Bleeds

Jeni Enjaian

I learned quite a lot from this book which always makes for an enjoyable read. The structure of the book, a series of long-form news stories, aided in making the book digestible and captivating for the reader. I also found the current events nature of the essays a fascinating take on what now makes up recent history, since this book was published in the mid-1990s.
I just wish, however, that Guuillermoprieto had included another essay, or at least more pages, about the fascinating interplay between the African religions, Catholicism, and the "new" Protestant religions in Brazil. I absolutely loved that chapter.

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