Cover: Pão de Açúcar (1901), painting by Eliseu Visconti (1866–1944) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1944)
A young clerk, Augusto Machado, tells of his friendship with an older civil servant, Gonzaga de Sá, a wise and ironical man who walks him through the old streets of Rio de Janeiro and its history. Lima Barreto's novel of 1919 is a gentle, melancholy portrait of the city and of the clerkly life.
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