Summary
Gabriela Ruivo: The Law of Gravity
What connects an old man in a hospital bed, a bestselling author, a restless young man on the threshold of adolescence and a two-year-old boy? What fate awaits the friends Marija Anna and Anna Maria? Can one be freed from an abusive husband, and the other from the pain of loss? And what about the future that persistently becomes the past and the past that constantly returns as the future? It is time that perpetuates the pattern of violence – the same story repeating itself despite the hope that the cycle will once be broken. In this daring and original novel, Gabriela Rujvo masterfully builds an alternative universe in which time is subject to the law of gravity - a force that connects past, present and future, inviting us to explore other worlds within the concepts of time and space, but also of literature itself. Written in Portuguese, this novel brings a multiple narrative structure through which both old and contemporary themes are dealt with: rape, domestic violence, race, abandonment and identity. These are all long-term problems that the story deals with through various characters connected to the central axis of time.
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