A novel about Oswaldo Cruz, responsible for the introduction of scientific control of epidemics in Brazil and the protagonist of the Vaccine Revolt. A precise diagnosis of a society weighed down by misery and backwardness, reluctantly opening itself to modernity.
While awaiting the arrival in Rio de Janeiro of an American researcher interested in the life of the sanitarian Oswaldo Cruz, an unemployed doctor recounts and re-examines the life and struggles of this pioneer of experimental medicine in Brazil, who, at the beginning of the century, against all odds, fought the epidemics of bubonic plague, yellow fever and smallpox that raged not only in the countryside but also in the federal capital itself, and completely renewed the country’s basic sanitary policies.
Sonhos Tropicais is a novel that not only follows the controversial path of a man whose innovative methods led to the outbreak of the famous Vaccine Revolt, but also sketches the panorama of an entire crucial era and provides a precise diagnosis of a society that, held back by misery and backwardness, reluctantly opened itself to modernity.
