LULA'S TALE

The Brazilian phoenix

Synopsis

The election, for the third time, of Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva as president of Brazil in 2022 was an extraordinary and entirely unexpected comeback for a man who survived cancer, lost all his loved ones, and endured a politically charged trial that landed him in prison for more than a year and a half, before being fully exonerated by the courts.

Like a phoenix constantly rising from its ashes, Lula’s life is a true novel that subtly chronicles seventy-five years of Brazilian history, a country as vast as a continent that has oscillated for decades between dictatorship and democracy, between a more or less reformist left and a more or less hard-line right, and between relentless modernisation and widespread poverty.