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excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nIf I could give you life again\u2026 have you born from me the way I was born from you\u2026 I never stop wishing for the impossible. Even though you\u2019re 98, I can\u2019t bear to lose you. I, one who knows about the end of everything, can\u2019t accept your end. What\u2019s the point of reading the Buddhists and knowing that everything changes, \u201ccauses and conditions vary continously\u201d? That life is \u201ca flow of creation, transformation, extinction and nothing is permanent\u201d? I know that only impermanence makes the renewal of the universe possible; the heart doesn\u2019t follow the head, though.<\/p>\n
\nsynopsis<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nAt 98 years of age, the mother is almost blind, almost deaf, can hardly walk and eats like a bird. In the impossibility of conversing with this mother, the daughter-narrator writes to an imaginary mother, talking about her drama. She does this with a view to bearing the physical devastation, lack of communication and, even more so, to elaborate on the loss of a parent even before death.<\/p>\n
In her reflections, she recalls the past of a combative women, ready for anything, who, on becoming a widow, took over her husband\u2019s company and began to read and re-read his love letters. The same letters that, because she is 98 and unable to see well, her daughter reads to her. Despite her age, however, this mother remains sharp and does exactly what she wants to do. She \u201cputs one over\u201d on anyone trying to control her with advice about doctors, medication, and food, and with this, continually feeds the humor of the narrative.<\/p>\n
Thinking about her mother\u2019s condition, the daughter asks herself when life should be prolonged and questions the conduct of the doctor who tries to beat death at any price. A text about love and separation, which raises questions that are fundamental nowadays: How to face extreme old age? Is it a doctor\u2019s place to beat death? How to humanize the end of life?<\/em><\/p>\n
\nhistory<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nThe book was first launched in S\u00e3o Paulo, in the presence of doctors, psychoanalysts, journalists, writers, critics and actors, as well as friends and family. The book\u2019s muse, Dona Rosa, 98 years old, was also presente (pictures)<\/strong><\/a>.. The second launch was in Rio de Janeiro, at Livraria Travessa, where a debate took place with the presence of the writer, literature professor Deon\u00edsio da Silva and psychoanalysts Teresa Palazzo Nazar and Marco Antonio Coutinho (pictures)<\/strong><\/a>..<\/p>\nAlso in S\u00e3o Paulo, the author presented the book in Academia Paulista de Letras \u2013 APL, once more with the presence of D. Rosa (pictures)<\/strong><\/a>.. The third launch was held in Lisboa, Portugal. It took place in the Brazilian Embassy. Carlos Kessel (First Secretary of the Embassy), the writer Teolinda Gers\u00e3o and the psychanalist Maria Belo joined the launch (pictures)<\/a><\/strong>..<\/p>\nThe writer gave numerous interviews and the press published several favorable reviews. The first edition comprised 8000 copies and the book was on the bestseller list and it is now going to be published by Penguin in Portugal and in Spain by Maresia.<\/p>\n
\nopinion<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nAn account startling for its delicacy and also the frankness with which the author narrates the passage from daughter<\/i> to mother\u2019s mother<\/i>.
\nFernanda Torres<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThere are violent declarations and there are delicate declarations. This book\u2019s is delicate, despite the difficult theme. I read it with rapture and emotion. I liked it very much and believe that thousands of readers will feel the same.<\/span>
\nMario Sabino<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nAn ambivalent, highly interesting book about life at a hundred years of age.
\nRoberto Schwarz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA very beautiful book, contained and unsentimental\u2026one sees a familiar, yet universal, timeless world.
\nTeolinda Gers\u00e3o<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA beautiful novel! It is going to run the world, through land and time.
\nLuiz Fernando Ramos<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThere is something of eternity in the abiss of mother\u2019s clingness, sublime slavery which does not die with death.
\nRichard Prieur<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nareas of interest<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nLiterature, Psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n
\ncritical reaction<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
At 98 years of age, the mother is almost blind, almost deaf, can hardly walk and eats like a bird. In the impossibility of conversing with this mother, the daughter-narrator writes to an imaginary mother, talking about her drama. She does this with a view to bearing the physical devastation, lack of communication and, even more so, to elaborate on the loss of a parent even before death.<\/p>\n
In her reflections, she recalls the past of a combative women, ready for anything, who, on becoming a widow, took over her husband\u2019s company and began to read and re-read his love letters. The same letters that, because she is 98 and unable to see well, her daughter reads to her. Despite her age, however, this mother remains sharp and does exactly what she wants to do. She \u201cputs one over\u201d on anyone trying to control her with advice about doctors, medication, and food, and with this, continually feeds the humor of the narrative.<\/p>\n
Thinking about her mother\u2019s condition, the daughter asks herself when life should be prolonged and questions the conduct of the doctor who tries to beat death at any price. A text about love and separation, which raises questions that are fundamental nowadays: How to face extreme old age? Is it a doctor\u2019s place to beat death? How to humanize the end of life?<\/em><\/p>\n The book was first launched in S\u00e3o Paulo, in the presence of doctors, psychoanalysts, journalists, writers, critics and actors, as well as friends and family. The book\u2019s muse, Dona Rosa, 98 years old, was also presente (pictures)<\/strong><\/a>.. The second launch was in Rio de Janeiro, at Livraria Travessa, where a debate took place with the presence of the writer, literature professor Deon\u00edsio da Silva and psychoanalysts Teresa Palazzo Nazar and Marco Antonio Coutinho (pictures)<\/strong><\/a>..<\/p>\n Also in S\u00e3o Paulo, the author presented the book in Academia Paulista de Letras \u2013 APL, once more with the presence of D. Rosa (pictures)<\/strong><\/a>.. The third launch was held in Lisboa, Portugal. It took place in the Brazilian Embassy. Carlos Kessel (First Secretary of the Embassy), the writer Teolinda Gers\u00e3o and the psychanalist Maria Belo joined the launch (pictures)<\/a><\/strong>..<\/p>\n The writer gave numerous interviews and the press published several favorable reviews. The first edition comprised 8000 copies and the book was on the bestseller list and it is now going to be published by Penguin in Portugal and in Spain by Maresia.<\/p>\n An account startling for its delicacy and also the frankness with which the author narrates the passage from daughter<\/i> to mother\u2019s mother<\/i>. There are violent declarations and there are delicate declarations. This book\u2019s is delicate, despite the difficult theme. I read it with rapture and emotion. I liked it very much and believe that thousands of readers will feel the same.<\/span> An ambivalent, highly interesting book about life at a hundred years of age. A very beautiful book, contained and unsentimental\u2026one sees a familiar, yet universal, timeless world. A beautiful novel! It is going to run the world, through land and time. There is something of eternity in the abiss of mother\u2019s clingness, sublime slavery which does not die with death. Literature, Psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n
\nhistory<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nopinion<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nFernanda Torres<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nMario Sabino<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nRoberto Schwarz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nTeolinda Gers\u00e3o<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nLuiz Fernando Ramos<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nRichard Prieur<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nareas of interest<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\ncritical reaction<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n