by João Ubaldo Ribeiro · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483101636
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«El hechizo de la isla del Pavo Real» is the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (296 pages, in Spanish).
On an unknown island off Brazil, in the 18th century, Captain Caballo drives a utopian libertarian experiment. His son, Pedro Feitosa Caballo, lives an idyll with Crecencia; a mysterious peacock protects their love, while the struggle among whites, blacks, and Indians and a spell that defies time threaten the island under the Inquisition.
It belongs to the Andanzas collection of Tusquets Editores and was published in Barcelona on March 1, 2001.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary fiction interested in stories set in colonial Brazil with fantastic elements.
João Ubaldo Ribeiro was a Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor. Several of his books and short stories have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. Ribeiro was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, being elected in 1994. At the time of his death many considered him to be Brazil's greatest contemporary novelist.
