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Brasyl by Ian McDonald
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Brasyl by Ian McDonald

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Ian McDonald’s Brasyl is almost as sprawling as the country that serves as its setting, and just as hard to categorize. I've traveled around Brazil many times, both for business and pleasure—that binary opposition, beloved by immigration officials, and supposedly representing incompatible agendas; but these, like much else in this nation, blur together.…

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