The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot revolves around a traditional tale about theft, greed, an ubiquitous mother, and the links between the worlds of the living and the dead.
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About a mysterious and troubled black woman, a former practitioner of the Santería religion, who mus...
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A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionall...
In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of follo...
Local boy, Peter, is trying to find the source of the metallic sound that haunts the village. When h...
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