Monteiro Lobato: A Trip Into the Future

From the Amazon.com product page of the English edition: The Porviroscope, a machine that allows time travel, helped the author, Monteiro Lobato, arrive in the United States in 2018. He meets with the editor of his books, who will launch his works in North America. This happens 100 years after his books were written and published. He is enveloped in an unimaginable modernity of a new world. In this future place, Lobato, although a creative writer, is faced with something he could hardly envision. The Brazilian author, who inspired children and adults with his enchanting stories, now takes the opportunity to tell the story of his life in the first person. As a visionary and self-made man of the arts, he tells about the ups and downs he encountered in the past that are similar to what entrepreneurs experience today. He shares his knowledge of Brazil, where more than 200 million copies of his books were sold.This story is a biographical novel of Brazil's greatest children's authors.