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From world-renowned Brazilian copy writer Chico Buarque comes an elegant, imaginative tale of love and loss. Spilt Dairy is the story advised by 100-year-old Eulálio d'Assumpção as he sits on his deathbed, rambling to his nurses and visitors by using a haze of morphine and storage. Ribald, hectoring, and sometimes delusional, Eulálio jumps through time and space, melding background and illusion to unravel the story of his family, his traditions, and a changing country. He begins by retracing his youngsters as the boy of a conventional Brazilian senator and prosperous coffee exporter. Proud of his noble traditions - and wanting to recount it to anyone within earshot - he recalls excursions to Europe with his father, who presents him to cocaine, sex, and a disciplinary whip that is passed down through four years of military services men. At his father's funeral, the teenage Eulálio falls powerfully deeply in love with a dark-skinned choir girl known as Matilde. His storage floods with exquisite information as he recalls their furtive after-school courtship and the late-night rendezvous that led to their unlikely relationship. But the beginning of their little princess marks a moment of problems for the Assumpção lines, and Eulálio challenges to understand why the love of his life seems to be withdrawing from him. In Spilt Dairy, Buarque conjures an evocative family portrait of a man's life, his loves, and the chaos of storage, all set against 200 many years of Brazil's turbulent background.
