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Nova edição do romance brasileiro sensação na Europa e nos EUA com capítulo inédito
Ao acompanhar uma linhagem de mulheres indomáveis, A mãe da mãe de sua mãe e suas filhas reconta de forma feminina e nada usual a história do Brasil, compondo um retrato fiel através dos pequenos – e ao mesmo tempo mais emblemáticos – detalhes de sua sociedade. As mulheres de Maria José Silveira sobreviveram à exploração desenfreada do pau-brasil, da cana-de-açúcar e do ouro, à dominação e à opressão não apenas dos colonizadores e das ditaduras, mas também de seus parceiros, maridos e amantes. A história se desenlaça por mais de quinhentos anos até chegar à sua última descendente, nascida no início do século XXI, que vai de encontro a um futuro de luz e sombra, de problemas crônicos e grandes esperanças.
"Um retrato fiel das mulheres brasileiras, que, em todas as suas diferenças, podem ser descritas de diversas formas, menos como frágeis e submissas."
Harvard Review
338 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2002

All right.
If that’s how you want it, I’ll tell you all the story of the women of the family. But let’s take our time.
"….in general, Flor surrounded herself with people who were as friendly, warm, and affectionate as she was.
Thinking it over, wait a second! What I just told you couldn’t possibly be true. No one is able to surround herself with kind, warm, and affectionate people alone. The fact is that Flor wasn’t exactly an expert in reading people…”
“The likelihood is quite high that Acucena was the subject of much commentary for her love affairs and strange manners, so ahead of her time was she in that tiny countryside village, though nothing can be said on the subject with certainty. Because if it’s true that an omniscient narrator supposedly knows everything, it’s also true that in literature, as in every other discipline, there’s an appreciable distance between theory and practice. A narrator knows many things, it’s true. If it were the opposite case it would be impossible to tell you this story – but to be frank, narrator and omniscience are separated by a considerable gap and heavy dose of exaggeration.