Jóia de Família

Rute Clara chooses to have her third baby at Quinta do Salto, the estate of her uncle Albergaria, whose will leaves his fortune to whichever nephew comes into the world under its roof. The infant does not survive, and Celsa Adelaide, the loyal maid at the bedside, quietly substitutes the son she herself had a few days before. Brought up as António Clara and nicknamed Cravo Roxo, the boy becomes close to Celsa's other son, Touro Azul, who carries drugs and haunts brothels, and he falls for Vanessa, who runs one, though he is married to Camila, from a family of ruined winegrowers. Crime and easy money are seeping into bourgeois Porto and the Douro.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

345 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Portugal

Series

O Princípio da Incerteza, book 1

First published

2001 by Guimarães Editores

Author's age

79 when first published

ISBN

9789726654483 (original)