Experienced author and journalist Augustus Young used his travel diaries to produce a semi-fictional story about the people and culture of Brazil in Brazilian Tequila.
Gus, a middle-aged Irishman, finds that his life in London has gone cold.
How will Gus cope? Will he see Brazil in the same eyes ever again? Inspired by Theodore Roosevelt\'s In the Brazilian Wilderness, Brazilian Tequila will appeal to those who enjoy travel stories and are interested in Brazil..
His affections threaten to take over from his principles.
When Gus travels with Pedrinho to his hometown (which is suffering a ten-year drought), it leads to a confrontation and a moral twist that throws his cherished certitudes into confusion.
However, his European side begins to revolt against what he sees as a \'moral no-man\'s-land.\' Torn between his love of being there and his concept of justice, his engagement becomes disturbingly personal.
Throughout his travels, Gus meets the real victims, particularly the poor and the young, and their cheerful passivity take him aback.
Even the first democratic elections for decades are being conspicuously rigged.
Pandemic corruption seeps into everything and nobody seems bothered, including his friend, Pedrinho.
He flies around Brazil, learning things that challenge his preconceptions.
An epidemiologist without an epidemic, a poet who cannot write poems, he decides to transmigrate to a warmer climate, namely Brazil, where he hopes to winter himself back to spring.
Experienced author and journalist Augustus Young used his travel diaries to produce a semi-fictional story about the people and culture of Brazil in Brazilian Tequila.
Gus, a middle-aged Irishman, finds that his life in London has gone cold
