Brazilian cultural and literary critic Roberto Schwarz has said "literature is not judgement, it is figuration" 1 (42: translation by the author) Therefore, the major quality in a novel is the ability to investigate and analyse a specific social environment rather than just tell a good story. Nara Vidal's first novel, Sorte/ Luck, is one of these works in which a narrative of the past shines a light in our present.Winner of the 2019 Prêmio Oceanos, one of the most celebrated literary prizes in the Portuguese language, Sorte is a rare beast: a slim historical novel which describes with depth and sense the way in which movements of History change personal lives. Vidal is a Brazilian writer living in England, whose extensive research for this novel is quite evident.The protagonist is Margareth Cunningham, an Irish young woman living with her God-fearing family in the early eighteenth century in terrible conditions: "Our poverty was also a punishment by God. We agreed from the beginning that opening our eyes and traverse unhappy hours until we close the eyelids again was our greatest luck." 2 (15: translation by the author)From this quote in the first page of the novel, one can deduce most of the themes discussed by Vidal. God and poverty are everywhere throughout the pages of this book. Following a tradition in Irish literature, the writer investigates the way in which the intersection between family, country, religion, and the absence of money turns into the force that drives the Cunninghams to abandon Ireland, and try a better life in Brazil.This country, as the legendary island Hy-Brazil, has a mythical aura in the first part of the novel, while Margareth and her family are still living in Ireland. "Hy-Brazil is a wandering island. It appears every seven years and, therefore, infinitely." 3 (Vidal, 22: translation by the author). Martha, the protagonist's younger sister, loves this legend, and the possibility of life in a new land contaminates the whole family. Once the father receives the news that they will go to Brazil, he says: "We are going to a warm land full of hope. It will take forty-five days to cross the ocean in a ship and we will scape this famine, this end of the world. They need families for working as settlers. Daniel and James can start a business. The land is called Brazil." 4 (23: translation by the author)The short part of the novel set in Ireland creates a dialectical movement with the Brazilian land once they arrive there. Vidal paints a bleak scenery in a way that is opposed the sunny and tropical South America. However, what remains in both countries is a life of poverty and exploitation. Leaving their homeland in Cork is a joyful moment that will prove to be just a disguise for worse things yet to come.The women from this family leave Ireland in winter clothes -blankets and scarvesto which the father argues: "In Brazil it all will be useless. Your mother can sew a cotton dress for each one of you to kill time throughout this crossing." 5 (24: translation by the author) And he was right. M...

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