Red Brazil

The most astonishing thing about this story is that it is real! Not only because of the strange events, as the Renaissance is rich with marvelous adventures, but because of the almost complete forgetfulness of it. The orphaned children: Gost and Columby are deceived into participating in a colonial mission to explore the New World, which they see as their only hope of meeting their missing knight father. Leading this forgotten expedition is Philoganion, the warrior returning from the Crusades, gathering a diverse team of soldiers, workers, and engineers, along with an unprecedented element: children of the same age as the orphans, an age that allows them to learn new languages quickly enough to work as translators with the native inhabitants. About one of the most mysterious and exciting French campaigns of the Renaissance, and through the story of the orphaned children seeking hope and the human struggles they face, Rofan takes us in his book, winner of the Goncourt Prize, on an captivating historical journey from the shores of France at the beginning of the religious upheavals to Brazil with its red woods; to describe the human struggle with nature, and the first encounter between different civilizations, filled with curiosity, fear, admiration, and passion.