Happy Old Year
By Marcelo Rubens PaivaTranslated by David S. George
ISBN: 0-935480-53-6
Price: $16.00
Pages: 232
"It is sadly premature when a twenty-three-year-old has lived enough of a life to warrant an autobiography. Yet this is the case of Marcelo Rubens Paiva. By the time he wrote Happy Old Year, Paiva had lost his father to deadly tactics by the Brazilian military government, and the use of his arms and legs in a paralyzing diving accident....Paiva's story of spiritual and physical oppression is endearingly told and sensitively translated by David George....A best-seller adapted first for the stage, then into an award-winning movie, the autobiography of Marcelo Rubens Paiva is a courageous stand against moral passivity."
---Miami Herald