Description
In a hospital room at the edge of death, an elderly man, Eulálio d’Assumpção, begins to speak to his daughter in a drifting, morphine-hazed monologue that gathers the fragments of a whole family history. As his memories unfold, love and loyalty are tested, fortunes rise and vanish, and small daily humiliations accumulate into a portrait of tenderness under pressure. Blending intimate confession with sweeping generational change, the novel explores how memory reshapes the past, how regret lingers in ordinary moments, and how tradition can both shelter and suffocate. With Chico Buarque’s lyrical, keenly observant prose, a single bedside narrative becomes a haunting meditation on decline, betrayal, and the echoes of what we leave behind.
Available Editions
paperback
Grove Press
Published Jan 1, 2012
177 pages
ISBN: 9780802120083
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Details
First Published
2009
Language
por
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Spilt Milk by Chico Buarque.