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The Air You Breathe (2018)

door Frances de Pontes Peebles

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:"[A] glorious, glittery saga of friendship and loss... I read The Air You Breathe in two nights. (One might say I inhaled it.)." ??NPR
"Echoes of Elena Ferrante resound in this sumptuous saga."??O, The Oprah Magazine
/> "Enveloping...Peebles understands the shifting currents of female friendship, and she writes so vividly about samba that you close the book certain its heroine's voices must exist beyond the page." -People
The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride??and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other.

Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate.
Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. Graça, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, is clever, well fed, pretty, and thrillingly ill behaved. Born to wildly different worlds, Dores and Graça quickly bond over shared mischief, and then, on a deeper level, over music.
One has a voice like a songbird; the other feels melodies in her soul and composes lyrics to match. Music will become their shared passion, the source of their partnership and their rivalry, and for each, the only way out of the life to which each was born. But only one of the two is destined to be a star. Their intimate, volatile bond will determine each of their fortunes??and haunt their memories.
Traveling from Brazil's inland sugar plantations to the rowdy streets of Rio de Janeiro's famous Lapa neighborhood, from Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood back to the irresistible drumbeat of home, The Air You Breathe unfurls a moving portrait of a lifelong friendship??its unparalleled rewards and lasting losses??and considers what we owe to the relationships… (meer)
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friendship, betrayal, affairs, tied together by love and friendship. A great story and the Brazilian landscape was a nice change from typical European stories of this genre. ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
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  eshaundo | Jan 7, 2023 |
I have mixed feelings regarding this book. I finished it, but can't give it a high rating.

Two girls, both on a sugar plantation in Brazil. The first, an orphan who works in the kitchen with a woman who takes care of her, the other is the only daughter of the boisterous, self-absorbed owner of the plantation.

As the plantation is in dire straights of survival. The spunky orphan refuses to allow the daughter of the owner to treat her badly. They grow to love each other through the wife and mother of the plantation owner. They land in Hollywood as they try to make a living in music. It works temporarily.

I cannot recommend it. ( )
  Whisper1 | Jun 13, 2021 |
Non so ancora a chi, ma di sicuro questo è un libro che ho voglia di regalare perché è troppo bello e deve essere letto!
Dentro ci sono tante cose, che riescono però a non sembrare mai troppe.
Ci sono, en passant, anche risposte a domande epocali quali “ma che faceva la gente mentre si facevano colpi di Stato, si instauravano dittature, si imprigionavano e uccidevano i dissidenti?” “che faceva la gente durante la guerra, mentre si consumavano stermini, atrocità e massacri?”
La risposta la so da anni: la gente normale e la povera gente tirava a campare, a mettere insieme il pranzo di un giorno con, forse, la cena del giorno dopo; la gente si innamorava, sperava, odiava, si sposava o si lasciava, tutta concentrata nella propria minuscola storia, senza la consapevolezza della Storia che mutava e che inesorabile scorreva.

E questo è solo un piano di lettura, collaterale e infinitesimo, di questo romanzo, che attraversa la storia del Brasile a partire dagli anni ‘20, ma è una storia distante dagli uomini e dalle donne spesso impantanati nelle questioni quotidiane; parte da una piantagione di zucchero del Nordeste dove, di fatto, la vita dei servi e dei lavoranti era ancora nel pieno ‘800: liberi sulla carta ma schiavi del non possedere mai nulla e di guadagnare ancora meno. Un mondo doloroso e crudele, un mondo in cui le donne erano oggetti di proprietà pubblica se povere, della famiglia o di un marito se appena benestanti.
In quel mondo che conosceva splendori e rovine a seconda delle crisi dei raccolti o dei mercati crescono due bambine, coetanee: entrambe di primo nome fanno Maria, ma gli attributi del nome connotano la loro condizione sociale e quello che doveva essere il loro destino segnato dalle leggi di un mondo immutabile: Maria das Dores (la sguattera) e Maria das Graças (la figlia dei padroni).
Il titolo brasiliano (Tempo de graça, tempo de dor) a mio avviso enfatizza ancora di più le differenze di aspettative tra Grazia e Addolorata. Se non che le bambine, legatissime, in una fuga più da discesa agli inferi che di elevazione, prenderanno precocemente in mano la loro vita in anni in cui poco potranno permettersi di pensare al domani, tra ladri, prostitute, spacciatori e malfattori di ogni genere, riusciranno a far perdere le loro tracce, inghiottite da uno dei quartieri malfamati di Rio, che le ingloba offrendo loro protezione e occasioni di rivalsa. Attraverso la Musica arriveranno fama e celebrità, ma la felicità mai potrà essere distinta dal tormento, come i nomi che si portano addosso.

Non è un libro perfetto, alcune parti sono poco verosimili e quasi macchiettistiche, ma secondo me tutto si tiene in buon equilibrio. C’è tanto. E tanto risveglia in me.
  ShanaPat | Aug 17, 2020 |
A big, sprawling novel set in Brazil and Hollywood in the first half of the twentieth century. Dores is the orphaned kitchen girl on a sugar plantation. Graca is the daughter of the owner. Encouraged by Graca’s mother, they become friends. Music is their passion; Graca can sing, Dores can write lyrics. As young teenagers, they run away to the streets of Rio to become samba stars. So much is packed into this novel about music, friendship, show business, and love. ( )
  rglossne | Jul 1, 2020 |
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:"[A] glorious, glittery saga of friendship and loss... I read The Air You Breathe in two nights. (One might say I inhaled it.)." ??NPR
"Echoes of Elena Ferrante resound in this sumptuous saga."??O, The Oprah Magazine
"Enveloping...Peebles understands the shifting currents of female friendship, and she writes so vividly about samba that you close the book certain its heroine's voices must exist beyond the page." -People
The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride??and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other.

Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate.
Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. Graça, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, is clever, well fed, pretty, and thrillingly ill behaved. Born to wildly different worlds, Dores and Graça quickly bond over shared mischief, and then, on a deeper level, over music.
One has a voice like a songbird; the other feels melodies in her soul and composes lyrics to match. Music will become their shared passion, the source of their partnership and their rivalry, and for each, the only way out of the life to which each was born. But only one of the two is destined to be a star. Their intimate, volatile bond will determine each of their fortunes??and haunt their memories.
Traveling from Brazil's inland sugar plantations to the rowdy streets of Rio de Janeiro's famous Lapa neighborhood, from Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood back to the irresistible drumbeat of home, The Air You Breathe unfurls a moving portrait of a lifelong friendship??its unparalleled rewards and lasting losses??and considers what we owe to the relationships

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