Buarque, Brazil's most popular composer, lyricist and performer, comes to Hay to talk to Jon Fairley, Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival, about his new novel Benjamin. With him are 3 other Brazilian authors who talk about and read from their new novels making an exceptional tour/event which reveals one of the world's most mesterious, complex and astounding modern nations.... Brazil's most distinguished and popular novelist and screenwriter, Rubem Fonseca talks about The Lost Manuscript, Patricia Melo, "the Irvine Walsh of Rio", talks about her novel The Killer and Joao Gilberto Noll reads from Hotel Atlantico.