A Terceira Mãe

Rosalina's life is told by those who knew her: a brother who wrote poems, a neighbour in love with her who watches from his window, a stepson set on ending the sadness that eats at him, a daughter forever angry about what might have been, and a granddaughter who loves her yet must get away to make her own story. Following her from girlhood to her last years, the novel sets her beside her daughter Filomena and granddaughter Joana, three generations of women facing hardship in different ways, from the mid-1920s to the present day.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

276 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Portugal

First published

2008 by Campo das Letras

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9789896252960 (original)