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As mulheres de Tijucopapo

of Marilene Felinto

Ilustração de formas geométricas na cor preta, que lembram um pouco a imagem de um sol. São alguns círculos concêntricos, com pedaços falhados, sobre fundo de cor amarela

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Synopsis

Leaving the state of São Paulo behind, Rízia drives alone along the BR 116 highway towards Tijucopapo, Pernambuco, the town where her mother was born. On her journey, she is accompanied by the sun, by her anger and by a landscape of babassu palms and mocambos. We listen to her stream of consciousness as she thinks about the history of the women in her family, the love she lost, her father’s betrayals, her childhood in 1960s Recife and the letter in English she needs to send. In her fierce writing, Marilene Felinto mixes the past and the future, fiction and autobiography.

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why we recorded it

Marilene Felinto’s debut book, which received critical acclaim when it was released in 1982, earned her the Jabuti Award for Breakthrough Author and received praise from intellectuals such as Ana Cristina Cesar, Caio Fernando Abreu, José Miguel Wisnik and Marilena Chauí. In her unique writing, the author develops her own lexicon, associating words and emotions that are revisited throughout the book, as if it were both a novel of formation and a novel of return. Between the lines of the text, Marilene evokes the story of the battle of Tejucupapo, in 1646, in which 600 Dutch soldiers were defeated by the women of this village located in Pernambuco. However, as Beatriz Bracher put it, “this book did not enter the bloodstream of Brazilian literature”. In the voice of Roberta Estrela D’Alva, the audiobook edition of the novel brings new vigor to the work, whose unique writing remains as contemporary and radical as it was 40 years ago.

Marilene Felinto read by Roberta Estrela D’Alva

Roberta Estrela D’Alva (Diadema, São Paulo, 1978) is an actress, director, researcher and poet. She is a founding member of Núcleo Bartolomeu de Depoimentos | Teatro Hip Hop and Frente 3 de Fevereiro collective. She is the creator of ZAP! Zona Autónoma da Palavra and curator of the Rio Poetry Slam (FLUP). Together with Tatiana Lohmman, she directed the documentary SLAM – Voz de Levante (2018).

author Marilene Felinto

Marilene Felinto was born in Recife, Pernambuco, in 1957, and moved with her family to São Paulo in 1968. She has a degree in Literature from the University of São Paulo. She wrote Autobiografia de uma escrita de ficção – Ou: porque as crianças brincam e Os escritores escrevem, fama e infâmia: uma crítica ao jornalismo brasileiro, Contos reunidos and Sinfonia de contos de infância, among other books.

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