Symphony in White
by Adriana Lisboa
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appears in About Brasil and Fiction.
The two daughters of Afonso Olímpio and Otacília raised in rural Brazil in the 1960s and educated in teeming Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s form the counterpoint and central theme linking four generations: the pliant, troubled Clarice and the lovely, strongwilled Maria Inês. As other voices join in?those of the men they have married and the ones they...
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appears in About Brasil and Fiction.
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