The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
Martha Batalha
Euridice is young, beautiful and ambitious, but when her rebellious sister Guida elopes, she sets her own aspirations aside and vows to settle down as a model wife and daughter. And yet as her husband's professional success grows, so does Euridice's feeling of restlessness. She embarks on a series of secret projects - from creating recipe books to becoming the most sought-after seamstress in town - but each is doomed to failure. Her tradition-loving husband is not interested in an independent wife. And then one day Guida appears at the door with her young son and a terrible story of hardship and abandonment. The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao is a wildly inventive, wickedly funny and keenly observed tale of two sisters who, surrounded by a cast of unforgettable characters, assert their independence and courageously carve a path of their own in 1940s Rio de Janeiro. A deeply human and truly unforgettable novel from one of the most exciting new voices in world literature.
Publication Year: 2017
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0 0The diversity of the set of female characters was enjoyable. Not much is to be said about the men; basically the same person with just a few differences. Their obsession with "the blood stain on the sheets on their wedding night" was exhausting.
It would have been satisfying for at least one of the women to leave their husband and set out to do something they loved and become even remotely successful, but perhaps that was not the done thing in those times.
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