I picked this up while in Goodwill because of the title and took it home because I've never read anything by a Portuguese author. I'm not sure I totally understood the whole thing. It's written in a confusing format, with the narrator changing but no clean indication initially of who is talking (no font change, for example) and the characters have ridiculously long life spans. Just the same, I couldn't put it down, for reasons I can't fully explain. It was

I'm not sure when or where this was released, but it is no longer in my possession. Hopefully it'll write home soon!