Length12h 8m
About this audiobook
In his fourth book, The Alley, the author João Calazans Filho tells a humorous story, flavored with local habits. It's about a serial killer from the South of Bahia, Brazil, and of the bohemian, player and womanizer Police Chief Officer, who makes his mission to capture the murderer. At the beginning of the Military Dictatorship and amid the violent reality of cacao cultivation and Brazilian coronelism, where killing is just another tool of work, and fear is the best way to lead, Police Chief Officer João tries to put a stop, no matter how hard it takes, to the action of a serial killer, because the officer wants to maintain the impression of peace in the city so that he can do what he likes: get into debt by organizing carnival blocks, drinking, playing and surrounding women and friends in his casino in the legendary Beco do Pinga. Alley, by the way, figures almost like a character in this thriller. While the landowners live on their farms in the city, away from their workers and have European customs (and spending). At Beco do Pinga, inside Camacan, these same workers spend their little and hard—earned money on the pleasures of addiction and try not to mess with the wrong woman, at the risk of waking up full of lead . The Alley is the soul, albeit a little poorly washed, of this small town. With remarkable and charming characters and an engaging storyline, The Alley carries us through an adventure in the Brazilian Western where the law that preponderates is the one of the 'strongest' whereas the moral is relative until this quiet Sodom is interrupted by murders different from usual ones, without reason nor apparent objective.
Audiobook details
GenreTravel, Children's Literature
Length12 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 2, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Alley João Calazans Filho 1
2Chapter I – Forgery
3Chapter II — Instabillity
4Chapter III – Crimes and punishments
5Chapter IV – Cultural differences
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6Chapter V — Celebrations
7Chapter VI – Behaviors
8Chapter VII – The party
9CHAPTER VIII — Exceptions and costumes
10Chapter IX — Tradition
11Chapter X–Bohemia
12CHAPTER XI — Delirium
13CHAPTER XII — Dissimulations
14Chapter XIII — O beginning of the end
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