In Rio de Janeiro the Nogueira Alencar sisters live what appears to be an enviable life: Leonor has married a university professor, while Mariana, whose husband is a wealthy ship-owner, has reopened on the family’s behalf a lawsuit against the Bank of Brazil that’s gone on for sixty years and generated fifteen thousand pages of proceedings. Then one day Aunt Maria kills herself and bequeaths to Mariana her account of two centuries of Nogueira Alencar family history; suddenly the past sheds light on the present and reveals what was behind the family hatreds, the maternal cruelty, some marital woes, and backward traditions.
TITLE : the eight notebooks
AUTHOR : Heloneida Studart
COUNTRY : Brazil
AUTHOR : Heloneida Studart
COUNTRY : Brazil
NUMBER OF PAGES : 240
SOLD TO: Keter Books (Israel), Quid Novi (Portugal), Marcos y Marcos (Italy), W.A.B (Poland) and for a pocket book edition to 10/18 (France)
SOLD TO: Keter Books (Israel), Quid Novi (Portugal), Marcos y Marcos (Italy), W.A.B (Poland) and for a pocket book edition to 10/18 (France)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Heloneida Studart was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, in 1932. Imprisoned for several months in 1969 for her literary, journalistic, and union activities, Heloneida Studart was for a number of years on the black list of the military then in power. Following the assassinations of some very close friends, she wrote O pardal é un passaro azul, when Brazil was going through a new process of democratization. A feminist theoretician, essayist, playwright, and author of nine novels, Heloneida Studart has also been a deputy for the PT (Workers’ Party) of the state of Rio de Janeiro since 1978.
Heloneida Studart was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, in 1932. Imprisoned for several months in 1969 for her literary, journalistic, and union activities, Heloneida Studart was for a number of years on the black list of the military then in power. Following the assassinations of some very close friends, she wrote O pardal é un passaro azul, when Brazil was going through a new process of democratization. A feminist theoretician, essayist, playwright, and author of nine novels, Heloneida Studart has also been a deputy for the PT (Workers’ Party) of the state of Rio de Janeiro since 1978.