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Spilt Milk
Leite Derramado
Chico Buarque (born 1944)
Translated by Alison Entrekin
English editions
In EnglishSpilt Milk
Grove Press · United States · December 2012 · Hardcover · 192 pages
Spilt Milk
Atlantic Books · United Kingdom · 2012 · 177 pages
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From his hospital bed, the last patriarch of a once-eminent clan talks without pause to his daughter, the staff and passing strangers. His story leaps from Portuguese forebears to a nobleman of the Empire and a republican senator, and down to a young descendant in today's Rio. Memory slips, he embroiders and omits, and through the gaps the reader glimpses what he will not admit: above all the truth about Matilde, the lively, unconventional woman he married and never understood.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 200 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Brazil
- First published
- 2009 by Companhia das Letras
- Author's age
- 65 when first published
- ISBN
9788535914115 (original)
9781848874886 (Atlantic Books, United Kingdom)
9780802120083 (Grove Press, United States)