Miguel Sousa Tavares - River of Flowers
Seville, 1915 - Paraíba Valley, 1945: thirty years of 20th-century history unfold across the pages of this novel, set in Alentejo, Spain, and Brazil. Through the saga of the Ribera Flores family, rural landowners from Alentejo, we are transported to the tumultuous years of the first half of a century marked by dictatorships and bloody conflicts, where the path to freedom seems too narrow and the price too high. Between their shared love for the land where they were born and their yearning for the new and unknown, between the loves and heartbreaks of a lifetime and the clash of ideas that separate them, two brothers follow different paths, each searching in their own way for coherence and happiness. "Rio das Flores" is the result of meticulous and exhaustive historical research, serving as a backdrop to a story of love, passion, attachment to the land and its traditions, and, simultaneously, the desire to change the established order of things. Three generations succeed one another in the same family home, trying to maintain what the land has united, amidst the turmoil caused by decades of passion and hatred unlike anything the world had ever seen. In the end, those who did not stray from their path survive.
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