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Land of Ashes
Three generations bound by land, power, memory and a buried truth.
About the book
In the late 1960s, Anselmo Vilar and Bento Aranha arrive in rural Mato Grosso as partners. One knows the paths of power; the other knows the land and its people. A fire ends their partnership: Anselmo emerges as the landowner, and Bento is left with the blame.
For three generations, the Vilar family accumulates wealth and influence while the Aranhas endure silence and resentment. Decades later, Helena Vilar and Miguel Aranha fall in love while investigating a death, land fraud and the erased existence of a child.
Among forged documents, family pacts and impossible loves, the truth threatens to reveal that the two families may never have been truly separate.
A saga about land, power, memory and each generation’s choices in the face of inherited injustice.
Who it is for
A book for readers who want to go beyond the first answer.
For readers who seek emotion, human tension and questions that remain after the final page.