A Margem Imóvel do Rio

A letter reaches the palace in Rio from one Francisco da Silva of Rio Grande do Sul, reminding the emperor that two decades ago, as his guest, the monarch pledged him a noble title. Nothing in the archives confirms it, and the imperial word cannot be left in doubt, so the court's chronicler, a widower whose days have gone grey, rides into the vast frontier grasslands. There he meets not one claimant of that name but many, each with a plausible memory of the royal visit, along with decaying rural gentry, women trapped in silence, prospectors and rough herdsmen.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

176 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, 19th century

First published

2003 by L&PM

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9788525412928 (original)