{"product_id":"via-apia","title":"Via Ápia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of Brazil's most acclaimed new literary stars, a twenty-first-century epic set in Rio's largest favela. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife on the \u003ci\u003emorro\u003c\/i\u003e, the hill, is good. Five young people--the brothers Washington and Wesley and their friends Douglas, Murilo, and Biel--live close to Rocinha's main avenue, Via Ápia, just a quick bus ride from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the rhythms of their lives stutter and scratch when Brazil's militarized police storm Rocinha as part of \"pacification\" efforts ahead of the upcoming World Cup and an influx of international tourists. \u003ci\u003eVia Ápia \u003c\/i\u003echarts the expectant anxiousness before the police's invasion, the chaos born from their occupation of the hill, and the aftermath of their silent withdrawal from the favela after one year. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in heated bursts and marked by the charged chronology of the protagonists' lives, Geovani Martins's prodigious debut novel knits together the dramas and dreams of the favela during a peak of turbulent unrest. Like the \u003ci\u003eboom boom kat \u003c\/i\u003eof Brazilian funk, the unbridled ambitions and resolute friendships of these characters blare throughout \u003ci\u003eVia Ápia\u003c\/i\u003e, delivering a resonant counternarrative to the notion that violent interventions are the state's only remedy to the afflictions of crime and poverty. The favela retorts: life, life is the answer.","brand":"Julia Sanches, Geovani Martins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46718063771884,"sku":"9780374612986","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780374612986.jpg?v=1754495844","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/via-apia","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}