Concerto for Body and Soul

Short essays by Rubem Alves, touching on life, sex, nature, soup, childhood, crime, Brazil, bovine wisdom, magnolias, ants, stepmothers, fiddles, death, hope, and a whole lot more. Rubem Alves is one of Brazil's msot beloved writers, a theologian, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and professor who sounds like your favorite uncle musing at the kitchen table.