The Republic of Dreams

by Nélida Piñon

Book Overview

Pinon delivers a subtle, sensuous, and seemingly all-encompassing novel about four generations of a family and a nation, from the turn of the century down to the troubled present. The central event is the impending death of the matriarch of the clan. Her first book to be published in English."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394555252
• ISBN13: 9780394555256
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 663 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An astounding book by the best living Brazilian novelist

This book captures the struggles of 3 generations- from Galicia to Brazil. Pinon moves effortlessly across the Atlantic and across time, and at once manages to create an epic, broad story through narrow, penetrating, and profound narratives. She mixes the holy with the profane, commentary on politics with domestic anecdotes. Her book feels like life: a mixture of hope and disappointments, a bubbling cauldron where reality and dreams comingle and flavor each other.