Consolation

Name: Consolation
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9788501086570
Price: 54.90 BRL
Availability: OutOfStock

Autor: Betty Milan

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Sinopse

Author of "Paris Never Ends" and "When Paris Sparkles," where the City of Lights serves as an inspiration for chronicles and stories, writer Betty Milan, based in the French capital, returns to her roots by exploring the streets and characters of São Paulo, the setting for her sixth novel. "Consolation" portrays the drama of a woman who loses her husband in France and only finds the solace she seeks among her fellow countrymen, listening to the people of São Paulo, her hometown. Brazilian, married to a Frenchman, Laura witnesses her husband's agony and death in a Parisian hospital, while trying in vain to convince the doctor to shorten his suffering. After the funeral, she takes a plane to São Paulo, her hometown, a city with which she maintains a contradictory love-hate relationship. Surprisingly, Laura doesn't go to her family's home because she can't bear the thought of hearing "my condolences" and being looked at with pity. She goes straight from the airport to the cemetery, where she speaks with the living and the dead, whose voices she hears. Mario and Oswald de Andrade, writers who, through their independence and their connection with Brazilian culture, left their mark on her. Her deceased father, who encourages her to emerge from the shell of grief and listen to others, the "people of the street"—those who live there unseen and unheard. Taking his advice, Laura wanders through the city. She discovers the São Paulo no one knows and reveals to us the world of its invisible inhabitants. Until she realizes that no one ceases to exist because they die and that "losing doesn't mean not having," and discovers, in the comfort of those who remain, that love is greater than death.