Book #108076

Monimbó - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Robert Moss, Arnaud De Borchgrave
Book #108076 Monimbó - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Robert Moss, Arnaud De Borchgrave.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
ISBN: 0671435418

A first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition showing some minute stains to the page edeges in a Fine dust-jacket; is a gripping, suspenseful, and darkly comic novel about three generations of a dysfunctional Brazilian family.

As the novel opens, Jacare, Monimbó's charismatic and brutal drug lord, is dead, killed in a shootout with the police. Jacare's son, Antônio, is the new king of the mountain. But Antonio is a fat, incompetent, and sexually frustrated dope who relies on his mother, Dona Flor, and his sister, Dona Lívia, to run the family business. The sisters are a pair of scheming shrews who spend their days plotting to overthrow Antonio and take over the drug trafficking empire. Meanwhile, Jacare's daughter, Dona Isabel, is a bored housewife who spends her days indulging her taste for expensive clothes, high-end drugs, and expensive men. When Antonio is assassinated, the three women are thrown into a frenzy of competition to take control of the drug trade.

Monimbó is; 8vo; 384 pages; $7.50.

Price: $50.00