Heliopolis Av James Scudamore

<p>As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now twenty-seven, he works high above the above the sprawling metropolis of São Paulo for a vacuous ''communications company''. But this is not his world, and this is not a simple rags-to-riches story: Ludo''s destiny moves him around like a chess piece, showing him both extremities of opulent excess and abject poverty, taking him to the brink of madness and brutality.<br><br><b>By the author of <i>The Amnesia Clinic</i> and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.</b></p>