A Normalista
Credits: Adolfo Caminha (author)
Summary
Maria do Carmo, a young woman training as a teacher in Fortaleza, lives under the roof of her godfather, a clerk named João da Mata, and has a head full of novels and marriage. Adolfo Caminha's novel of 1893 is a bitter, close picture of provincial society in the north-east of Brazil. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This edition omits one or more passages describing sexual acts involving children; each omission is marked in the text. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.