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Rosa, a small-town Brazilian teacher, begins to lead a life of danger when she stands up to a vicious politician and also harbors her cousin, who is hiding from the Rio underworld
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Anita Mason was born in Bristol, England during the middle of WWII. She read English at Oxford, lived in London, and worked in the publishing field for five years. She then settled deep in the English countryside of Cornwall, where she began writing fiction, building on a base of non-fiction, magazine writing, and newspaper reporting. The author of six novels, she currently teaches writing at Bath Spa University College in Bath, England.
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British novelist Mason (Bethany, 1981; The Illusionist, 1984) takes us south of the border this time, to Brazil, where a heady atmosphere of corruption, greed, and tainted desire fails to breathe much life into this strangely lifeless thriller. Rosa Van Meurs, the schoolteacher daughter of a famous anthropologist, publishes a letter in The Washington Post calling attention to a gold-mining venture illegally constructed on an Indian preserve in the Brazilian hinterlands. The owner of the mine, a wealthy industrialist who is standing for election in Rosa's hometown, has tried to silence her but now finds himself being blackmailed in turn. In the midst of all this, Rosa's cousin Fabio, a young poet and runaway who becomes embroiled in ``the racket'' of illegal infant adoptions, moves in with her in an attempt to escape from his boss's gang. Eventually, Fabio succeeds in saving a child, and Rosa saves her job; but none of this comes as any surprise, and it is hard to know just how it represents any change or development on the part of these characters. The feeling overall is very bleak: Mason writes de profundis, with a moral consciousness that puts one in mind of Graham Greene, but, lacking Greene's subtlety, her moral posturing seems shrill and pretentious, and her characters--the innocent child, the venal politician, the savage gangster, the upright heroine--become mere symbols, rather than emanations, of the good and evil that inform her world. Very bland stuff: a morality tale that will win few converts. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherDutton
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0525933514
- ISBN 13 9780525933519
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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