First published in Portuguese under the title Brasil: Uma Biografia by Companhia das Letras, 2015
This translation first published 2018
Copyright © Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling, 2015
Translation copyright © Penguin Books Ltd, 2018
The moral right of the authors has been asserted
Obra publicada com apoio do Ministério das Relações Exteriores do Brasil em cooperação com a Fundação Biblioteca Nacional / Ministério da Cultura.
(Published with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil, in cooperation with the National Library Foundation / Ministry of Culture.)
Cover: The construction of Brasilia, photograph by Marcel Gautherot © Marcel Gautherot/Instituto Moreira Salles
ISBN: 978-0-141-97618-1
Brazil Page 94