Tudo que o rio sabe is the first book Omorphos Publishing has released, and the opening of Nordeste Agora, a five-book series in Brazilian Portuguese.
A state water inspector finds something in the Capibaribe, does everything correctly about it, and disappears a week before he’s due to testify. The police record it as a voluntary absence. Mariana Salgado, eight months into her first newsroom job, starts asking anyway. An old fisherman who has watched the same bend of that river for fifty years will let her use his name, on one condition: that she writes it right.
It’s written specifically for B1 readers: your first real novel in Portuguese, not a simplified rewrite of someone else’s. And you don’t get a summary of the investigation. The field reports, the late-night messages, the pages of a missing man’s notebook all arrive in your hands as they arrive in hers.
Four more books follow Mariana through the Northeast, a different city and a different institution each time. More on where it goes on the series page.
266 pages, just under four hours of reading, which most people spread across a few weeks, with glossaries and language notes at the end of every chapter. Available as an eBook. Retailer links are on the book page.
Thanks for being here for the first one.
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Tudo que o rio sabe
Nordeste Agora, Livro 1
Recife, PE
Mariana Salgado is sent from Recife into the interior of Pernambuco to find out what happened to an environmental inspector who vanished a week before he was due to testify. She has his field notebook, a set of coordinates that don't match any official map, and a fisherman who says almost nothing at all. The river holds more than anyone is willing to say out loud.
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