Nunca Houve um Castelo

In 1968 Estela, a perfect hostess only recently married, cries into her pillow a week after a New Year's party that has wrecked her marriage. In 1898 a New Year's party in Stockholm brought together Johan Edward Jansson and Brigitta, who later settled in Brazil and built a castle on an isolated stretch of coast called Ipanema. The Janssons' fortunes over the following century touch on social climbing, women's hopes and feminism, sexual liberation, the dictatorship, class and national decline, with wit and irony.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

256 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, Sweden, 1900s–2010s

First published

2018 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9788535930825 (original)