Brazil is often reduced to a handful of familiar images: carnival, football, beaches, music, and the Amazon. Yet behind those symbols lies a country far more complex, intimate, contradictory, and human than any postcard can contain.

In Things of Brazil: Seven Journeys into the Heart of a Country, Daniele Fumachi guides the reader through the landscapes, peoples, food, music, faith, daily life, and unresolved future of one of the most diverse nations on Earth. Written from within Brazil rather than from the distant gaze of a visitor, this book reveals how Indigenous knowledge, African ancestry, immigration, regional identity, family, religion, inequality, resilience, and cultural invention continue shaping the country.

This is not a conventional travel guide, nor a romantic portrait that ignores Brazil's wounds. It is a literary and cultural journey through a nation where extraordinary beauty exists beside profound injustice, where food carries memory, music preserves resistance, faith enters ordinary life, and hospitality often begins with a chair moved closer to the table.

Rich, honest, and deeply Brazilian, Things of Brazil invites readers to move beyond the stereotypes and encounter the country as it is truly lived: immense, unfinished, difficult to define, and impossible to forget.