Dom Casmurro, Paperback by De Assis, Joaquim Maria MacHado; Costa, Margaret J...
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Dom Casmurro, Paperback by De Assis, Joaquim Maria MacHado; Costa, Margaret J.... Or so, at least, he thinks. Thus he transports readers back to his youth in a once fashionable neighborhood, when he and Capitu were neighbors playing innocently in the backyard. Dom Casmurro, Paperback by De Assis, Joaquim Maria MacHado; Costa, Margaret Jull (TRN); Patterson, Robin (TRN), ISBN 1324095148, ISBN-13 9781324095149, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Dom CasmurroBento Santiago, our charismatic yet exceedingly unreliable narrator, nicknamed by his enemies Dom Casmurro, has become a bit of a recluse in old age. He spends his days reading and mourning the past in a house built as a replica of his childhood home. One day, musing over the painted busts of Nero, Augustus, Masinissa, and Caesar, he is inspired to write his own story, a tale of equally epic proportions. Or so, at least, he thinks.“Yes, let us begin by evoking a famous November afternoon, one I will never forget,” he writes, recalling the day he fell in love with his childhood sweetheart, Capitu. Thus he transports readers back to his youth in a once fashionable neighborhood, when he and Capitu were neighbors playing innocently in the backyard. But after overcoming many obstacles, Bento’s happy-ever-after ending proves short-lived when he is consumed by paranoia and Collected StoriesPosthumous Memoirs of Brás CubaDom Casmurro
