Zicartola

Zicartola was the emblematic restaurant created in the mid-1960s by the sambista Cartola and his wife Zica, in rua do Carioca, downtown Rio de Janeiro. It was a privileged meeting place, where sambistas from the old and the new guard drank, talked, and played together. From Nara Le o to Z K ti, from Paulinho da Viola to Nelson Cavaquinho, everybody went there. And it was also a space of political resistance, in the middle of the Brazilian military dictatorship. This is the story told in this beautiful book.