Innocence

In Inocência, Viscount de Taunay (1843-1899) describes the beauty and suffering of those who lived in the Mato Grosso backlands in the mid-19th century. With incredible mastery, the author tells the disastrous love story of the young doctor Cirino, madly in love with Inocência, a stunningly beautiful girl. But she is engaged to be married, and her father, a stubborn miner, knows it will be impossible to break off her previously agreed-upon engagement with the violent backwoodsman Manecão. A transitional novel between Romanticism and Realism, featuring a love story and a sociocultural and behavioral analysis of the 19th-century backwoodsman, Inocência invites you to read with its emotionally charged writing and generous dashes of humor. Includes Foreword by André Seffrin.