CHASING BOHEMIA: A YEAR OF LIVING RECKLESSLEY IN RIO DE JAMEIRO
Book ID/图书代码： 11980507B16578
English Summary/英文概要： Carmen Michael, a twenty-eight-year-old travel industry executive, ditches her job in London and visits the city of Rio de Janeiro for a holiday. Wary of the allure of glossy brochure promises, she starts out very much as a jaded jetsetter.
Her scepticism, however, is swiftly overcome when she moves into a yellow mansion owned by Gustavo, a flamboyant bachelor who lives in the hills between the favelas.
In the forgotten bairros of old Rio, Carmen embraces Latin American life with all its colour, danger, and unpredictability. She flirts with Brazilian high society, collaborates with an Italian revolutionary, walks straight into the well-sprung trap of a local hustler, runs away from him to Buenos Aires and then runs back — only to fall for a samba musician from the local bohemian quarter.
Winding its way through the anarchic backstreets of bohemian Rio, far from the glitzy beaches for which the city is more famous, Chasing Bohemia looks at the extraordinary musical culture, unapologetic hedonism, and rampant infidelity that rule this far-flung paradise of the tropics.
Written with vivacity, Chasing Bohemia is a story about living for the day — and the surprising little truths about yourself you can discover through being immersed in poverty, isolation, and a culture that is not your own.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 28歲的卡門，毅然辭去倫敦的好工作，跑到里約熱內盧來渡假，她結交一個當地男友，開始忘情地渡過熱情的巴西生活，十足體驗拉丁美洲文化，隨著和當地人生活，她有機會出入上流社會，學會打情罵俏；她有機會聽到，有人如何勾結義大利的內部革命；她看到妓女們的生活，這一切讓她錯鄂地避離到阿根庭，也因為受不了對森巴舞的思念又回到這裡。
這是個奇妙的城市，充滿音樂舞蹈，超級模特兒，流浪狗，陽光海灘，蟑螂還有古柯鹼，這裡的貧民窟住著世界上最窮的一撮人，而美麗的海灘上，有錢人曬著一身古銅色肌膚，襯托出最新的泳裝，歡迎任何對生活麻弊的人，一起體驗這充滿刺激與矛盾的地方。
卡門是知名旅遊出版社Lonely Planet’s 的自由作家，專門寫里約熱內盧的旅遊報導。她在2003年第一次拜訪巴西一週，便深深為這個國度著迷，目前她也如願地住在里約熱內盧。她曾受訪ABC廣播網，也經營一個女性旅遊網站(www.womantraveller.com ), 她的文章富有許多議題，旅遊，政治，經濟和藝術。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Carmen Michael first visited Brazil in 2003 for one week, and has been there ever since. After completing a degree in economics at the University of Sydney, she worked in the travel industry and travelled extensively. She contributed to Lonely Planet’s Rio de Janeiro Guide, set up a site for women travellers (www.womantraveller.com), conducted radio interviews for the ABC, and has written articles across a wide variety of subjects, including travel, politics, economics, and the arts. Carmen lives in Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro.
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