The end of the rainy season : discovering my family's hidden past in Brazil

Summary: "Marian Lindberg grew up being told that Walter Lindberg, the man who raised her father, was a brave explorer who had been murdered in the Amazon. She took her father's claims at face value, basking in her exotic roots, until she started to notice things. The unverified legend became a riddle she couldn't solve. As Lindberg moved from journalism to law, fell in love, and sought a family of her own, her father repeatedly interfered. He had a closed vision of his family, and she--unlike the silent Walter--was breaking out. Yet her father's story of the past haunted Lindberg. Long after her father's death, Lindberg set off for the Amazon, determined to find out the truth about Walter. Aided by generous Brazilians who adopted her search as if it were their own, she discovered as much about herself and her family as about Walter, whose true role in Brazil's history turned out to be unexpected and deeply troubling. Sharply observant, wrought with honesty, and sweeping in its ambitions, The End of the Rainy Season is a powerful examination of identity and human relationships with nature, and between one another"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781593766023 (alkaline paper)
Physical Description: print
pages cm
Publisher: Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part One -- Ipanema -- Steamship to paradise -- Amazon jungle, Amazon grave -- Don't cross-examine me -- The investigation begins -- Negligence -- Scoring on Varick Street -- An introduction to Otto Ulrich -- Treasure maps -- A hard lead to follow -- Love lessons -- Man on a mission -- That other hemisphere -- Growing up -- The groom's change of name -- What's wild -- The forest for the trees -- Documents for Christmas / Holy S---! -- Fraud in Tres Lagoas -- Two chaps in hats -- The missing father one way and another -- Basket case -- Part Two -- Bon dia, Brazil -- A change in the current -- The top of the heap -- Alternative reality -- Green gold -- Ringing in the old -- Good deeds in Nova Danzig -- Once upon a jungle -- The kindness of strangers, Brazilian style -- A thin skull on a big man -- Small world, big ideas -- Of writers and pilots -- A balcony on the river -- Mato grosso -- Howlers -- A platform with the locals -- And then we go on -- Rio -- On a silver tray -- Home.