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Spilt Milk (original title in Portuguese: Leite Derramado) is a novel written by Chico Buarque . Synopsis. A very old man is in a hospital bed. A member of a traditional Brazilian family, he presents the history of his family in a monologue addressed to his daughter, the nurses, and anyone else who will listen.
- 195
- Companhia das Letras
- 2009
- Chico Buarque
1 de ene. de 2010 · 3.48. 428 ratings68 reviews. A story of two passionate people who share a shameful past and a tenuous present, this remarkable narrative follows headmistress Mohumagadi—of the elite Sekolo sa Ditlhora school for talented black children—and Father Bill, a disgraced preacher, as they are brought together again decades after a ...
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Period Pain. Works. Awards. References. External links. Kopano Matlwa (born 1985) is a South African writer and doctor, known for her novel Spilt Milk, which focuses on the South Africa's "Born Free" generation, [1] and Coconut, her debut novel, which addresses issues of race, class, and colonization in modern Johannesburg. [2] .
- 1985 (age 37–38), South Africa
- Coconut, Spilt Milk
- Fiction
- Novelist, physician
23 de dic. de 2012 · The protagonist of “Spilt Milk” is the centenarian Eulálio Montenegro d’Assumpção, an aristocrat down on his luck, tossing in his deathbed in a decrepit public hospital, hungry to tell the...
6 de feb. de 2014 · Spilt Milk is a novel about women - sisters and mothers and daughters and aunts; it's about secrets and lies and the inevitable diminution of lives these cause. Spanning the first half of the 20th century it tells tales of secret pregnancies and lost babies, of longed-for children and regretted adoptions.
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- Paperback
- Amanda Hodgkinson
7 de jun. de 2013 · When social services jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit of safety and justice, Brooke battles a broken court system that pushes to keep her father in the home.
- K.L Randis
Spilt Milk - Historical Novel Society. Written by Amanda Hodgkinson. Review by Jasmina Svenne. The Marsh sisters, Nellie and Vivian, are inseparable until the great flood of 1913 brings a charismatic but unreliable stranger to their isolated cottage in rural Suffolk.
