Ebony over the sugarcane fields

Historical romance winner of the 2022 Kindle Literature Prize.

At the end of the 19th century, Ébano, a freed Black woman, and José, a young Portuguese immigrant, fall in love, marry, and have a son. But the two cannot continue their love, as a silent boycott, motivated by racism, destabilizes the small family business. Worried about her son's future, Ébano leaves the city. Two centuries later, her story intersects with that of Marie Antoinette, a wealthy "white" woman who clings to the figure of her baroness, a great-great-grandmother, to disseminate prejudices based on color, race, and class to those who do not share her privileges.

"Ébano sobre os canaviais ," winner of the 2022 Kindle Prize for Literature, narrates not only a terrible part of the history of Brazil—the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery—but also the horrors still perpetrated today by structural racism. Beyond the pain, Adriana Vieira Lomar's novel offers a picture of a country that grows stronger as it embraces its identity—its people, its history, and its culture—and refuses to bow to the colonizing vision of others.

For literary critic Lúcia Facco, who wrote the book's blurb, "history reminds us that, by establishing alliances between whites and blacks, rich and poor, men and women, we are able to undermine, little by little, the prejudices on which our society was founded."

“A detailed, rich text, a very well-told, well-drawn, engaging story that makes you feel all the dramas and anxieties of its characters.” — Sueli Carneiro

“The book has a sophisticated and dynamic narrative structure, stitching together different time periods and, in this way, constructing a panorama of the slavery process in Brazil through fiction.” — Jeferson Tenório