Educação pode mudar sua vida

This playful satire is the third novel by Brazilian singer and composer Buarque. The plot revolves around Jose Costa, a Brazilian writer who ends up in Budapest, where he becomes absorbed by the Hungarian language. As he scans a Hungarian grammar book, he meets a woman named Krista, who offers to teach him the language and later becomes his lover. Although its plot is fanciful, Buarque’s novel raises serious questions about recreating one's life in a foreign language as exotic as Hungarian, said to be the only one on earth respected by the devil.
Recommended for readers of imaginative fiction and the linguistically curious -- Jack Shreve.