Book, Stone Ciranda[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. When a middle-class couple separates, the youngest, Virginia, is the only one of the three daughters who goes to live with her mother. It is from the point of view of this displaced and lonely girl that the dramas hidden beneath the family's polished surface are narrated. Madness, betrayal and death are the perverse forces that animate this singular formative novel, which, at the time of its release in 1954, drew attention to the talent and originality of Lygia Fagundes Telles' literature. Greeted with enthusiasm by intellectuals such as Antonio Candido, Paulo Rónai, Otto Maria Carpeaux and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Ciranda de Pedra has remained one of the author's most beloved books for half a century. Its popularity is so great that it led to two soap operas on Rede Globo, one in 1981 and the other in 2008.