Time and the Wind.

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Summary: A door to readers of the world understand Brazilian people
Review: Never a book explained so well how a Nation feels, think and love as Erico Verissimo's Time and the Wind saga. Since the discovering of Brazil till the modern age all the passions of a people are told in a way you couldn't forget and will make you beg for more when it's over. A classic!

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Summary: A literary monument of Latin America
Review: This novel of Erico Verissimo's, consists in 3 parts and more than 2,200 pages of pure history, adventure, emotion and love. It's the story of the Terra-Cambará family along 200 years, showing since the colonization of the South of Brazil until the government of Getúlio Vargas, in 1945. This book has all for those who likes to read, and a curiosity: Gabriel Garcia Marques was influenced by The Time and the Wind to write the great A Hundred Years of Solitude.

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Summary: Rio Grande do Sul through the eyes of Terra Cambarás
Review: Time and Wind is a magnificent masterpiece written by Erico Verissimo, a modernist author who does a fine job in telling the history of his (and mine) state since Los Siete Pueblos de las Missiones until the 1960 through 2000 pages that leave you wanting more. Anti-heroes, heroins, villains; they all populate a realistic look inside the RS as shown by the family Terra Cambará (Terra=Earth and Cambará is a solid wood) telling several stories of love, betrayal, friendship, folklore, politics and time. And wind.