From Paulo Jose Miranda, a poet that decided writing prose.
This is a book of dualities. The past and the present of a family. The fate of two sister nations, Brazil and Portugal. Death and life. The different world views that oppose fathers and daughters. Paulo Jose Miranda decided to write about women, about the life of one in particular, Maria de Fatima and the love of her life, John Cabral. It is the saga of this family in the land of Vera Cruz that we follow over time, in eighteenth-century Brazil, on the island of exile, Florianopolis. The time jumps somehow forwarded me to the writing António Lobo Antunes. The curious thing is that this novel patriarchal strain and somewhat generational is a metaphor for the relations between the two countries, although siblings lived times of stress. The prose is gorgeous, just read the first passage to realize a script full of juice, perhaps due to his poetic vein. However, the ending is confusing, often when the authors do not know what to do with certain characters terminate their cycle of existence in an almost unfair way. Banal, and summarizing, nobody deserves that. After all, I recommend this "daughters" and just to finish this author was awarded the literary prize José Saramago. Good reading.
