Stories of the Brazilian People - Vol. 3 - by Mary del Priore

Mary del Priore continues the delightful series Histórias da Gente Brasileira, in which, through the simplicity of everyday life, she seeks the answer to how we became who we are today.

In the third volume, the historian addresses the first stage of our Republic through the memories of those who experienced all the political, economic, social and behavioral changes that Brazil went through during the intense period between 1889 and 1950. By Deodoro from Fonseca to Eurico Gaspar Dutra, passing through the Vargas Era, the country has had 16 presidents, but what guides the narrative are the voices, full of the most diverse accents, of those who lived their daily lives on the streets and transformed it into written words.

Among them are memoirists/writers who left definitive marks on national culture, such as José Lins do Rego, Zélia Gattai and Erico Verissimo, whose descriptions invite us to go through the past and bring literature closer to history - and every story that these authors tell is also our.