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Dom CasmurroOn the coverO Violeiro, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, 1899
Dom Casmurro
An old man sets out to recover his lost youth on the page, retelling his boyhood love for the dark-eyed Capitu and the marriage that followed, until a serpent of doubt begins to coil through the story. Brazil’s most beloved and most debated novel.
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A slim, sly, addictive book that hands you a love story and then makes you doubt your own narrator, the great novel of jealousy and unreliable memory. You will argue about it for days.
Setting19th-century Rio de Janeiro
Genteel Rio de Janeiro under the Brazilian Empire, a world of seminaries, family honour, and drawing-room propriety, narrated by a man with every reason to bend the truth.