• Biblioteca Demonstrativa de Brasília BDB, Brazil
  
  
  

A dazzling combination of daring adventure, bravery and treachery, greed and intrigue, of old loyalties put to the test and new loves discovered, Brazil Red tells the story of one of the most fascinating episodes of the Renaissance - the French conquest of Brazil.

Just and Colombe are brother and sister, heirs to the Clamorgan estate. A scheming aunt and shortage of suitable interpreters, however, means the children soon find themselves aboard a ship bound for the Bay of Rio. As they embark on the journey of their lives, they encounter a world they could never have imagined, a world marked by uneasy alliances and illness, by double-dealings, lies and spies. Amidst fanatics, zealots, cannibals and villains, Just and Colombe can no longer be sure who is friend and who is foe, and soon learn they can take no one for granted - not even each other.

As the story builds to its dramatic climax, conquerors and conquered are - like Just and Colombe - forced to reconsider the nature and future of their relationship.

Jean-Christophe Rufin won the Prix Méditerranée and the Prix Goncourt for best first novel with The Abyssinian. A doctor and founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organisation Medicins sans Frontieres, he has journeyed to many war-torn regions to administer aid. He lives in France.