Description
Spanning generations and sweeping across Brazil’s shifting social landscape, this epic historical novel offers an “anti-history” that challenges official narratives by placing aristocrats and enslaved people side by side in the same unfolding fate. Through the intertwined lives of two families, the story moves from privilege to dispossession and back again, revealing how power, memory, and survival shape what a nation chooses to remember. With a panoramic, almost mythic scope, it explores themes of historical erasure, inherited violence, and the stubborn persistence of personal and collective remembrance. Written in a vivid, incisive style characteristic of João Ubaldo Ribeiro, the book blends saga-like momentum with sharp social critique, inviting readers to reconsider history as something contested—not fixed.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Mar 4, 1991
512 pages
ISBN: 9780571161294
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Details
First Published
1984
Language
eng
Translation
From: por
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for An Invincible Memory by João Ubaldo Ribeiro.