Miguel Sousa Tavares - Rio das Flores

Seville, 1915 - Paraíba Valley, 1945: thirty years of 20th-century history unfold across the pages of this novel, set in the Alentejo region of Portugal, Spain, and Brazil. Through the saga of the Ribera Flores family, Alentejo landowners, we are transported to the tumultuous years of the first half of a century marked by dictatorships and bloody conflicts, where the path to freedom seems very narrow and the price to pay very high.

Between their shared love for the land that saw them born and the allure of the new and unknown, between the loves and heartbreaks of a lifetime and the clash of ideas that separate them, two brothers follow different paths, each seeking in their own way the place of coherence and happiness. Rio das Flores is the result of meticulous and exhaustive historical research, which serves as a backdrop for a plot of love, passion, attachment to the land and its traditions, and simultaneously, the desire to change the established order of things.

Three generations succeed one another in the same family home, trying to keep unchanged what the land has united, amidst the turbulence caused by decades of passions and hatreds such as the world had never seen. In the end, those who did not stray from their path survive.