Estrellas Funestas
1869
Gonçalo Malafaya, a wealthy young nobleman from Porto, has been betrothed since childhood to his cousin D. Maria das Dôres, a young woman just emerged from the confines of a convent. Their families see the match as ideal: proper, advantageous, sealed by tradition. But both Gonçalo and Maria have discovered that the heart refuses to honor contracts signed before birth. She has fallen for another man; he is torn between familial duty and a longing that society will never sanction. In nineteenth-century Portugal, breaking an engagement brought shame that lasted generations, yet remaining in it promised a lifetime of quiet desperation. Camilo Castelo Branco, the great chronicler of Portuguese romantic suffering, weaves a tale where love and obligation become mortal enemies, and the stars themselves seem aligned against happiness. This is a novel about the violence of good intentions, the weight of inherited decisions, and the terrible freedom of choosing between what is expected and what is true.
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