Largo da Palma

Largo da Palma is a work composed of six novellas by Bahian writer Adonias Filho: The Girl with the Cheese Rolls, The White Square, A Very Old Grandfather, A Nameless Body, The Hanged Men , and The Stone . Setting his plots in the vicinity of the square that gives the book its name, Adonias blends the sacred and the profane, the urban and the rural, the erudite and the popular.

At the beginning of the first novel, the author describes Largo da Palma: "It is surrounded by old mansions that open passages onto narrow streets and a small, crooked slope also called Palma. And if the square and the slope are Palma, it is because the church that lends them their name stands there. Humble and wrinkled, three centuries old, nothing happens there that doesn't bear witness to its curiosity of a very old woman."

"In this O Largo da Palma, we learn the same lessons of panic and nonconformity from this writer's previous sagas. Told, once again, with the same exemplary mastery, and watered, as always, with throbbing human blood," wrote poet, critic, and historian Mário da Silva Brito.