Cristina Aché

The gravedigger Zé do Caixão continues his search for the perfect woman to bear his son.

Noronha, a low-class civil servant and his wife Gorda have four elder daughters. Silene, the youngest, is expelled from boarding school for killing a cat and newborns.

A young Portuguese cartographer in the 18th century finds new forms of love, war and a wild new world in an expedition into South American heart.