PONTO CHIC CAFE AND BAR

This book is not an invitation to a journey into the past. It is not nostalgia for nostalgia's sake, nor is it memoirism. It is art and social critique, in the finest tradition inherited from our greatest writers. Even when he summons his dead, the author's time is the present, which he captures with extraordinary sensitivity. His source of inspiration is above all the disrupted urban world of today—the world of Rio, the world of Brazil.