Everything is a River — Portable Edition

“Tudo É Rio is a masterpiece, and I do not exaggerate when I say so.”
Martha Medeiros

Lucy is the city’s most sought-after prostitute. Dalva, by contrast, comes from a traditional, upper-class family and is the wife of Venâncio, a man plagued by pathological jealousy. 

Lucy and the couple, Dalva and Venâncio, are the protagonists of a love triangle that shuns the clichés of romance novels and prompts us, in surprisingly original ways, to question the true limits of forgiveness, the intensity of love, the values that underpin the importance of family and, above all else in this story, how strong or weak the bond between women can be.

In this impressive debut novel, Brazilian writer Carla Madeira uses uninhibited, straightforward language and a mature narrative that is at the same time poetic and highly evocative. In doing so, she embraces every extreme, free from any basic notions of right and wrong, and introduces us to the extraordinary world of strong and weak women, of problems and solutions, of real feelings and desires.