More then three years ago I met nice man from Brazil. And than I have been trying find a book about Brazil. It was very difficult, everything what I found was about nature or about Indians of South America.
Finally I've got a one about emigration of Germans in 19th century - "Dziewczyna znad Rio Paraiso"They know almost nothing about Brazil environment and animals, but they dream and believe in wonderful future in that far far away land. But not everything went as they wish...
(german: Das Maeschen am Rio Paraiso). The author (Ana Veloso) tells a story parallel in two point of time. At the beginning, in 1826 we met a young woman, who suffer from amnesia and then we learn what had happened in the past. The second point of time is in 1810, when the main character is 7 years old girl. She is German and has grown up in German village in Hunsrueck as a 8th child of her parents. When she was about 20 years old she went with her fiance to Brazil to Sao Leopoldo, because a government of Brazil gave fields to all immigrants and helped them at the beginning.
Of course it is only an imagination story, however I learn a little about Brazil history.
