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The Slum, first published in 1890, narrates the lives of two Portuguese immigrant men in Brazil. One, a frugal landlord, seeks wealth and abandons his black lover for a wealthy white woman. The other, a pragmatic “gentle giant,” lives with a vivacious mulatto woman in a tenement owned by the landlord. These intertwined stories illustrate contrasting outsider responses to Brazil—capitalist ambition versus cautious adaptation to tropical life.
The novel explores themes of immigration, social life, and the complexities of man‑woman relationships within the context of slum conditions and landlord dynamics in Brazil.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Aluísio Azevedo
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