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How would you feel if you found out your grandmother was a big liar? The protagonist believed that the grandmother was a famous French actress, but comes to suspect that she might be a prostitute.
In search of the truth, after finding documents from her grandmother with eight different names, she travels with her family to the places where she lived, Romania, Israel and France, and makes surprising discoveries.
Read to find out how this Jewish grammy escape to the war and ends up in Brazil. This is not a sad story.
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Comedy, ancestry, drama, scaping the second world war and ending up in Brazil after Romania, France and Israel.
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Creative writing postgraduate course completion.
University FAAP - Brazil
Presentation at the university FAAP - Video in PT
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Grandmother
Adela is a 16-year-old Jewess who is famous in Romania for playing the role of a nun in a play. She falls in love with the
journalist who interviewed her, they live a great love story, they get married and live in Paris until the Second World War
breaks out. Her family is captured, but she manages to escape by hiding in a
priest's cassock. This seems to be the grandmother's true story, the truth to be revealed. However, the reader will
discover that it is the story that the grandmother invented mixed with the fantasy that the granddaughter created by
filling in the gaps of what the
grandmother did not tell.
Granddaughter
The granddaughter finds old documents and posters of the grandmother and realizes that not everything was a lie, her
grandmother was an actress in need. The mishaps of her trip and family fights are
reported with great humor. During the journey after much difficulty, she finds a lost relative who reveals the truth about her grandmother. She lied that she was capture in the War, she was not born in Iasi - Romania, she lied that her family died, she was not famous, and moreover, she suspects her aunt is the daughter of another husband, not her grandpa.
Read to find out how this Jewish grammy escape to the war and ends up in Brazil. This is not a sad story.
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Author Biography
Vanessa is a brazilian writer, post graduated in creative writing, and author of four books. She is also a fashion designer, and astrologer in her spare time, however, it is in writing that she finds the maximum expression of her creativity.
Vanny Gani
The Awakening of the Stars, a novel in the mystical fiction category & Aerial Roots a drama and comedy about the author grandmother.
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- Orginal LanguageEnglish, Portuguese
- ISBN/Identifier 9788590676034
- FormatPaperback
- Pages300
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleRaízes Aéreas
- Original Language AuthorsPortuguese
- Edition1
- Page sizeA5 (22x16) cm
- IllustrationGreen, Black, White and Purple, with graffics
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