Rui Castro è celebrato per il suo approccio immersivo alla ricostruzione storica e alle opere biografiche. La sua scrittura si addentra in ricchi dettagli, dando vita a epoche e figure passate con notevole vividezza. Castro si concentra su ciò che animava i suoi soggetti ed eventi, penetrando nel cuore della cultura e della storia brasiliana. Il suo viaggio letterario offre ai lettori uno sguardo accattivante sugli affascinanti personaggi e sui momenti formativi del passato del Brasile.
In the opening three minutes - 'the greatest three minutes in the history of football' - one man wrote himself into the record books alongside the game's greatest players, men like Pele, Di Stefano, Puskas and Maradona.
Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as "The Girl from Ipanema" (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), "The Waters of March" and "Desafinado" are known around the world. Bossa Nova, a number-one bestseller when originally published in Brazil as Chega de saudade, is a definitive history of this seductive music. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova explains how a handful of Rio de Janeiro teenagers changed the face of popular culture around the world. Now, in this outstanding translation, the full flavor of Ruy Castro wisecracking, chatty Portuguese comes through in a feast of detail. Along the way he introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who turned Gilberto's singular vision into the sound of a generation.