With enormous audacity and overwhelming force he recounts the profound complexity of love ties from the intriguing and subtle relationship between a mother and a daughter as no one has told it until now.
A phone call marks the beginning of the journey: the young woman who tells this story goes out to meet her uncle Emilio, who is a fugitive somewhere on the border between Uruguay and Brazil. Despite the dark relationship that unites them, Emilio was for her the only possible home when her childhood was crumbling inside an occupied house, on the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires.
The daughter of a former intelligence service and a mother caught between the escape and the guilt of the past, her reunion with Emilio will mean a trip back to the starting point of family history. Helped by a money changer and a mae umbanda, she must unravel the true reason for her search.
When advancing on this land of limits, language and people will mix and confuse in identities as close as they are strange. A novel of initiation that intersects the arid landscapes of the border with the urban peripheries of the two banks of the Río de la Plata, to investigate the limits of human relationships, where love, cruelty and incest begin and end.
There is no indulgence in this first novel by Luciana De Mello who with enormous audacity and overwhelming force recounts the profound complexity of love ties based on the intriguing and subtle relationship between a mother and a daughter as no one has ever told her before.
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