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The Wager: Aires' Journal - Machado De Assis, Joaquim Maria, and De Assis, Machado, and Scott-Buccleuch, Robert L (Translated by)
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Set in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of the abolition of slavery in 1888, this tells the poignant story of an elderly diplomat captivated by a beautiful young widow. Imbued with autumnal sadness, it shrewdly and ironically portrays a man coming to terms with the passing of the world he knows, and with his own old age and death.

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The Wager: Aires' Journal 1990, Peter Owen Publishers, London

ISBN-13: 9780720607727

Hardcover