Graça is strong-willed, selfish, and unmistakably charismatic. The two first meet as girls, when Graça and her parents move into the plantation’s Great House. Its focus is the close, volatile friendship between Dores, a kitchen maid born on the Riacho Doce sugar plantation in northeastern Brazil in 1920, and Graça Pimentel, the owner’s only child.
The Haunts of London: Jeri Westerson's medieval my.Ī soaring fusion of emotion, intense drama, and the compelling rhythms of Brazilian music, The Air You Breathe belongs to the special category of historical novels that chronicle entire lives – and it does so in enthralling fashion. The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker, a tale of Viki. Susan Spann's Trial on Mount Koya, a Shinobi myste. Beneath an Indian Sky by Renita D'Silva, a multi-p. Cometh the Hour by Annie Whitehead, a novel of war. Eight historical novels sitting on Mt. The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles. As she learns how to navigate the treacherous waters of Brazilian high society, the bandits' campaign against the land-owning 'Colonels' intensifies, and when a price is placed upon Luzia's head Emìlia realises she must risk everything in order to save her sister. But for the innocent dreamer, the excitement of her escape to the city is soon overshadowed by disillusion and loneliness. Whilst Luzia learns to survive in the unforgiving Brazilian outland, discovering love in the most unexpected of places, Emìlia meets the son of a wealthy doctor who seems to offer her everything she has always desired. But when Luzia is abducted by a gang of rebel bandits, the sisters' lives diverge in ways they never imagined. Luzia, scarred by a childhood accident that has left her with a deformed arm, knows that for her, real life can not be romantically embroidered, and so she finds solace in her sewing and in the secret prayers to the saints she believes once saved her life. Captivated by the romances she reads in magazines, she dreams of finding love in the bustle and glamour of the city. Emìlia treasures pretty, girlish things and longs to escape from the confines of the little town. Raised as seamstresses, the sisters learn how to cut, how to mend and how to conceal. Emìlia and Luzia dos Santos, orphaned when they are children, grow up under the protection of their aunt in the hillside village of Taquaritinga, Brazil.
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