Sport in Brazil Brazilian jockey T. J. Pereira aboard. Curling is a growing sport in Brazil; the creation of a national team was inspired by the audience for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. A temporary rink in the Eldorado Shopping Center in São Paulo featured Norwegian curler Linn Githmark and a winter-sports complex is planned, probably in the city of Campos do Jordão. Frescobol is a native Brazilian sport similar to tennis and cricket, played with a wooden racket and soft rubber ball on the beach with no scoring system. It began during the 1960s on Ipanema beach. Biribol is another native
A Winter Book the book. Stories in "A Winter Book" include "Squirrel", in which a woman's isolated life on an island is shared for a time with a squirrel, and the last story, "Taking Leave", in which two women realise that they have become too frail to spend their summers on the island they love. "A Winter Book" is arranged in three sections, "Snow", "Flotsam and Jetsam" and "Travelling Light". Introduction by Ali Smith Snow Flotsam and Jetsam Travelling Light Afterword by Phillip Pullman A Winter Book A Winter Book is a collection of twenty short stories by Finnish author Tove Jansson, published