The book "Brazil in the original" (a review)

[Careca]

The author

At the age of 54 in 1997, the native Wolf of the German Peter Reinhold is with his then 25-year Mrs Tina according Brazil emigrated. He ended his successful career as copywriters and moved from Düsseldorf to Brazil. He lived for ten years in four different locations. In 2007 he moved back to Europe with his wife. It only went to Lisbon, then to Berlin. September 2009 Peter and Tina Reinhold again to Brazil returned: "Now definitively", he wrote this as a final word in his book "Brazil in the original", that he published in July 2009.


The book

The subtitle of the book is "My 10 years on another planet". 438 Pages, the author of the book tries to offer suggestions as well as exciting reading, as he explains on the spine for holiday planner and aid for emigrants. Highlights of the book are both the portrayal of a drive through half Brazil (approx. 11,000 miles in 26 days) and the various descriptions of different Auswandererschiksale between dreams and Brazilian reality, which often more or less had collected the dreams, as the descriptions of the area in the northeast in the vicinity of AmazonDelta in Paraíba.
This already made experiences as camel trophy drivers in Papua New Guinea came to good Peter Reinhold. It was this experience at Paraíba accordingly introduce during his trips across dunes and impassable roads with his landrover. Every now and then he enters briefly to Brazilian realities, which are his experiences over quite dramatically and full of contrasts.


My rating

The book is due to the most entertaining and interesting written. The reports and descriptions of his travels are worth reading and detailed. Although it has impulses of a novel, the book is a hybrid from pure travel reporting and observations of Brazilian reality with a bit of autobiography but rather.
However, it is exactly here also the weakness of the book. The author and his wife are the declared protagonists of the book, which serve the action as a bracket on the one hand, on the other hand, the author feels rather only as a commentator because as agent in certain situations and his wife plays on only an almost insignificant marginal in the stories. The shot of autobiography makes the book content again and again to an impasse.

On the spine, the author speaks of the stated aims of the education about the true Brazil and thus increases the rights of the reader. But a book that will serve both as an "Exciting reading, holiday planner, or help for emigrants", must offer more.

Willing to emigrate to Brazil learn although some detailed over fate of emigrants, and that significantly more than in each doc soup of a private Werbefernsehens in this book. Only with the widespread difficulties Brazil faced its immigrants, searching the reader in vain. That Brazil's bureaucracy organizationally pushes off everything on the responsibility of its citizens and is substantially heavy, as known from the red tape from Germany, which is described in an own chapter on the change of address of a vehicle after move. Only tips on how the red tape of Brazil can be made more bearable, which remains the book the reader as information guilty. Therefore, this work uses the target group of willing to emigrate at most only.

I would not describe the book as a "fascinating reading". Yes, the book is interesting, describes areas and gives merkenswerte travel tips.

However if for me stress once, built up so the author achieved it to castrate it by his mode of expression. Relating to food, the words were "wonderful", "delicious", "tasty" and "crispy" as inflationary "iced", "freezing" or "very cold" in connection with beer. How often the author is beer or coconut water in the "Maw poured" had, I can no longer tell. There were many, many times. And any further description has more tired when reading.

In addition nervten also repeats: for example, is described in the book three times in different places, as the boy 'Pedro' had fished waters of the River a thankless Dutch its Brille from the BREW, after she fell into the water that tourist. And these descriptions were almost identical, without a real variation. It reminded me of text elements. Or the author uses Jürgen Klinsmann linked, already no longer plays role in Germany (Klinsmann as flyer), after Klinsmann has now been twice unsuccessfully filled trainer jobs.

Confusing is in addition added that the author for converting national currency forth repeatedly between euro and d-mark and jumps forth and although the book only has rausgebracht in July 2009.

The language style of the book varies between challenging and then again unloving then gerotzt. Writes the author, for example, how he casts with his tour group due to the lack of straws and cups "the fresh coconut water directly into the wide open mouth" and two sentences he writes of "Advertising with large mouth-quality promise" (based on a broken American bear knife), then later is not only a stylistic bloom the whole. The impression on me was the a linguistic Grätsche of blood as a really well thought out rather. I have like something been intended as irony, not found only indirect evidence of intent of these stylistic flowers. It seems probably correspond to the nature of the author's 66. Just this speech revealed more biographical than price wanted to give the author of himself. However, this impression must disagree, I can significantly wrong.

On the surface of the Brazilian reality, the book scratch only every now and then. Every personal conversation with Brazilians brings more sociological background to Brazil as this book.

The book "Brazil in the original" by Peter Reinhold may on the whole probably but still worth reading are referred to as it omits the quirks of the author's times. The author controls the content of his 10-year stay in Brazil how he controls his cars through rough terrain. However if you want to know what personal struggles of the author in the 10-year residence of Brazil had to fight, will not find them.

Therefore, the final chapter "The paint is now" with the explanation as to why the author with his Europe returned, just as surprisingly as he described some Brazilian rain comes:

Completely from the serene sky out.

In the book a note found not really, that the author could not confidently deal with problems in Brazil and solve. The proclamation of the end of the period of Brazil, then, is all the more surprising in the final chapter. Disadvantages when compared to the whole described flashbacks about the bad experience with Germany and Germany's disastrous the explanation of the motivation was to Europe to return already damn thin.

And here too the already described weakness of the book emerges. His wife went with. Just so. Would have been exciting, to learn the position of his wife and the discussions between the two. But in the book a dialogue between the author and his wife doesn't happen. The wife of the author emerges as already stated only as an observed object.

Even the living conditions of the author are never described. About the fates of other German emigrants contain more details than on the economic economic conditions of the author. Clearly: Something doesn't have to be, but it would have been the first not only interesting, would it have helped second significantly the book to give more color to his protagonists. Because more than in the book is, in every Brazil Forum.

Oh yes:

Definitely positive I, felt that Rio de Janeiro not a role played in the book. The author has saved himself and the reader for the benefit of other good detailed description this destination.

If you are looking for travel alternatives in Brazil, which is guaranteed in the book fündig. Who Paraíba already as a tourist destination has targeted, which can themselves with this book already tune. With this book, the scriptwriter Peter Reinhold has done his work sample. My appreciation.

However, if you looking for Auswandern information, and official details in the book, is not directly find. As authorities travel guide of Brazil, the book is absolutely inappropriate.


Summary

On a scale of grades in school between 1 and 6, I give the book a "3". Hereby I will certainly read the book, but in its entirety I will do to not again it me



The paperback book "Brazil in the original" is published in "Books on Demand" on July 3, 2009 (ISBN-13: 978-3837052343) and 24.90 euros.

[Lemi]

the descriptions of the area in the northeast in the vicinity of AmazonDelta in Paraíba.

I hope he thinks not the Delta do Rio Parnaíba in Parnaíba...

[Vagalume]

Interesting discussion of the book, thank you. Which book would you recommend because as worthwhile reading about emigration experiences?

Abraço,
Vagalume

[Lemi]

Modified by Careca (September 1, 2009 to) 13: 14 (Watch). Reason: Adjusted review to get it with Lemis "Sepitiba"-Reiseberichte nearly comparable.

What do you mean that Careca because? Gibts somewhere already a reader review by the Sepetiba thread?

[Careca]

@ vagalume:
So far, I had nothing concrete in the hands on your subject. I guess you are the best BrazilForums (in one reads you just), because still the better and more accurate answers can be found on specific questions.

@ lemi:
No, there is still no reader reviews by the Sepetiba thread. But let times over your ISBN waxing, then I don't's. Understand my edit rationale kannste so as I wrote it. Or more precisely, I had down upgraded my review for the Bu8ch, so that the comparability in the school rating system has been preserved. Otherwise the whole thing would have been incorrectly graded.
In my opinion your Sepetiba story reads better. There is hardly any content redundancy, with you, not the beer also is only "ice cold" and "delicious" in the throat in the disappearance, the food in your restaurant prepares not also adverbial superlative and the language varies with you between her and prollig. Your writing reads more simply with you.
This is only my opinion.
Yes, above all, one thing is clear in your stories: Klug is holding in mind, that a third of your stories are invented. Wiser is however, knows which one-third is doing. I would bet, your better half is here clearly the wiser. Us remains the speculative end.

[Lemi]

@ lemi:
No, there is still no reader reviews by the Sepetiba thread. But let times over your ISBN waxing, then I don't's.

I'd ja like to, but first I must clarify AG with my that I will in the future only still half-day come...

In my opinion your Sepetiba story reads better. There is hardly any content redundancy, with you, not the beer also is only "ice cold" and "delicious" in the throat in the disappearance, the food in your restaurant prepares not also adverbial superlative and the language varies with you between her and prollig. Your writing reads more simply with you.

Oh, thanks for the flowers. And all this without transverse and reading test. Often I notice that in hindsight, some gross blunder have crept.

Yes, above all, one thing is clear in your stories: Klug is holding in mind, that a third of your stories are invented. Wiser is however, knows which one-third is doing.

My personal default is that 80% correspond to the truth. I admit, however, that this varies from chapter to chapter. Sometimes, a fictional Poente must keep her to get redundancy. Sometimes, the pure truth enough to equip a chapter with the relevant highlights. Some chapters serve only to prepare for a Poente and must as speaking "edited". Here, the factor of "Fantasy" plays a big role, but also Kenntinsse of "listen and say". If the now evil takes someone me, I apologize very much. But the reality is sometimes banal, sometimes brutal.

And one should be clear: I move me to a thin line. It is therefore more than appropriate to your following comment:

I would bet, your better half is here clearly the wiser. Us remains the speculative end.

It is so! And by the way: various women in my stories carry aliases, unless grace, Patricia, Keity sometimes even SRA backed. Lemi is himself. Here you can you but be sure, that there will never be a revelation for my part. As well, there will be a Declaration on oath never that my stories correspond to the truth. The title I Märchenonkel I like to like in these circumstances. I guess that I deserve it more than my buddy SG.