Heliopolis

Scudamore, James

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As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now 27, he works high above the sprawling metropolis of Sao Paulo for a vacuous ‘communications company’. But this is not his world, and this is not a simple rags-to-riches story.

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Publish Date: 04/02/2010

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As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now twenty-seven, he works high above the above the sprawling metropolis of São Paulo for a vacuous ‘communications company’. But this is not his world, and this is not a simple rags-to-riches story: Ludo’s destiny moves him around like a chess piece, showing him both extremities of opulent excess and abject poverty, taking him to the brink of madness and brutality.

By the author of The Amnesia Clinic and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.

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Weight 202 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 17 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

278

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K