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Deus-dará

“God Will Provide” (title translated by AI)

Alexandra Lucas Coelho (born 1967)

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Set in the present over the course of a week, the novel follows seven people, Lucas, Judite, Zaca, Tristão, Inês, Gabriel and Noé, through Rio de Janeiro, while reaching back five centuries to the city's founding. Along the way it traces the Portuguese presence in Brazil, the carioca temperament, and the tensions and paradoxes of an enormous, teeming metropolis.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
563 pages in the original
Set in
Brazil
First published
2016 by Tinta-da-China
Author's age
49 when first published
ISBN

9789896713461 (original)