✍ Martha Batalha
📂 Fiction
📅 2016
🏛 companhia das letras
🌐 Portuguese
⚖ 205 KB
✦ LIBER ✦
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
✍ Scribed by Martha Batalha
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1786071738
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Euridice is young, bright and ambitious. A talented musician, she dreams only of fame and fortune. But this is Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s, and the one thing society expects of its women: to be loving wives and mothers. So when her rebellious sister Guida elopes, breaking her parents' hearts, Euridice sacrifices her own aspirations to marry conventional Antenor, spending her days ironing his shirts and removing the lumps of onion from his food.
As his professional success grows, so does her feeling of restlessness. Throwing convention to the wind, the irrepressible Euridice dreams up an array of creative ventures to escape her humdrum family life, to the distress of her tradition-loving husband. And then one day the free-spirited Guida suddenly reappears, and together the two sisters set about forging their own paths in life.
With a cast of unforgettable characters, The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao is a darkly comic novel from one of the most exciting new voices in...
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