South America
Brazil
1 author in the ranking·1 rated book·3 books set here
Brazil appears in the reader ranking through Machado de Assis, who was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839 and in 1897 became the first president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. His novel “Dom Casmurro” (1899), the fictional memoir of a jealous husband, is set in Rio de Janeiro. Other books set in Brazil include David Grann’s “The Lost City of Z”, about the explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished in the Amazon in 1925.
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