Book, Boca de Ouro[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. The bookie “Boca de Ouro” is a feared and megalomaniacal figure, who has this nickname because, upon improving his life, he exchanged his perfect teeth for a pair of shiny gold dentures. When “Boca” is murdered, his past is scoured by a reporter from a sensationalist newspaper in search of lurid stories. The journalist's source is Dona Guigui, the criminal's fickle and passionate ex-lover, a woman who, depending on her moods, reveals different versions of the same story. With a genius ability to ironize and satirize society's behavioral deviations, Nelson Rodrigues created a unique and universal theater that has been going through decades with the same vitality. To celebrate the playwright's centenary, Editora Nova Fronteira re-releases his 17 plays, an essential work that inaugurated and consolidated modernism in Brazilian theater.