Two rivers

With the publication of *A chave de casa* in 2007, Tatiana Salem Levy achieved the difficult feat of winning an award in Brazil and being published in Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, and Turkey with her debut novel. Celebrated by national and international critics, the translator and holder of a PhD in Literary Studies returns with a novel that is simultaneously intense and delicate, speaking to us about the impulse of love and romantic anticipation. *Two Rivers* was born from Tatiana's passion for the sea and the desire to incorporate it into her plots, always based on something that touches her life. "I am driven by impulse and emotion, and my literature will always have this," reveals the writer. For Tatiana, the sea can take us to the world, to the unknown; but it can also take loved ones, taking us away from where we would like to be. "I wanted to explore these two facets: on one hand, the sea drives; on the other, it provokes anticipation." While living in France in 2007, she decided to spend the summer in Corsica and fell in love with the island. At the end of that same year, he went to Dois Rios, Ilha Grande, one of the most beautiful places he had ever seen. "I decided to write a story that brought the two islands together," he says. Thus began the love triangle between twin siblings Joana and Antônio and the beautiful, tousled-haired Frenchwoman Marie-Ange. Joana, hostage to guilt, broken ties with her brother, and her mother's obsessive behavior, meets her on Copacabana beach; Antônio, an international photographer, without a safe haven, on the crowded Paris metro. This woman crosses their paths and enters a story divided by a loss from the past and a secret hidden in the waves of Ilha Grande.