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Family Heirlooms by Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A sparkling tale of duplicity from one of Brazil's greatest living writers Maria Bráulia Munhoz thought settling down with a well-off husband in a house of her own would inaugurate a life of freedom and contentment, but she soon discovered married life to be a series of tiresome formalities. And little happened with her husband, a much older judge, once the lights went out. Now the widowed Maria lives alone in her apartment in São Paulo, her only companions the scheming nephew of her deceased husband, Julião, and a loyal maid. Family Heirlooms is a searingly brilliant novella from one of Brazil's modern masters and winner of the Jabuti Prize, finally published in English more than two decades after its original Portuguese publication. Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, whose works include Termos de Comparação ( Comparison of Terms , 1974), which was awarded the literature prize by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics and O Nome do Bispo ( The Name of the Bishop , 1985), winner of the Mercedes-Benz Prize in Literature. Family Heirlooms (1990) was awarded Brazil's highest literary honour, the Jabuti Prize. 'Saint Zulmira... I de

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Author

Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares

Publisher

Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd : Made available through hoopla

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781911420736

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction