Tebas do meu coração

by Nélida Piñon

Madrid. 20 cm. 499 p., 1 h. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Colección 'Literatura Alfaguara', numero coleccion(24). Piñon, Nélida 1935-. Traducción del portugués de Angel Crespo .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8420421049

380 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1997

About the author

Nélida Piñon is a Brazilian writer born May 3, 1937 in Rio de Janeiro of Spanish immigrants. Her first novel was Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo (The Guidebook of Gabriel Arcanjo), written in 1961 which concerns a protagonist discussing Christian doctrine with her guardian angel. In the 1970s she became noted for erotic novels A casa de paixão (The House of Passion) and A força do destino (The Force of Destiny), written in 1977.
In 1984 she perhaps had her greatest success with A Republica dos Sonhos, English translation The Republic of Dreams. The work involves generations of a family from Galicia who emigrated to Brazil. This relates to her own family's experience.
She is a former President of Academia Brasileira de Letras and on a personal note she is said to be fond of American television.

Reviews

[Filipe Oliveira]

Um dos livros mais inteligentes que já pude ler. Até hoje, não vi um humor que pudesse chegar-lhe aos pés em um romance.