The invisible life of Euridice Gusmao / Martha Batalha ; translated by Eric M.B. Becker.
Language: English Original language: Portuguese Publication details: London, England : Oneworld, 2017.Description: 232 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781786071729
- 178607172X
- 9781786072986
- 178607298X
- Vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão. English
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- Sex role
- Sisters
- Marriage -- Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Black humor
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Sex role -- Fiction
- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Fiction
- 869.3/5 23
- PQ9698.412.A835 V5413 2017
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | BAT | Available | 067293 |
Originally published in Portuguese as A vida invisivel de Euridice Gusmao by Companhia das Letras, 2016.
Euridice is young, beautiful and ambitious, but when her rebellious sister Guida elopes, she sets her own aspirations aside and vows to settle down as a model wife and daughter. And yet as her husband's professional success grows, so does Euridice's feeling of restlessness. She embarks on a series of secret projects from creating recipe books to becoming the most sought-after seamstress in town -- but each is doomed to failure. Her tradition-loving husband is not interested in an independent wife. And then one day Guida appears at the door with her young son and a terrible story of hardship and abandonment.
Translated from the Portuguese.
