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The Pearl and the Sea: The Legend of Dona Paula

The Pearl and the Sea: The Legend of Dona Paula

Fernandes, Constantino

Paperback

Series: The Pearl and the Sea, Book 1

Romance

ISBN13: 9798343113334
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 13 2024
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Title: The Pearl and the Sea: The Legend of Dona Paula

Genre: Historical Romantic Tragedy / Folklore Retelling / Colonial Drama

17th-century Portuguese Goa, centered on the coastal settlement that will later become known as Dona Paula.

Atmospheric, intimate, romantic, culturally tense, increasingly tragic, hauntingly ambiguous.

Love can challenge the boundaries created by society, but tragedy becomes even more dangerous when later generations romanticize suffering instead of remembering the people who endured it.

Can Paula choose a life of her own in a society where her name, marriage, and future belong to her family-or will fighting for freedom cost both her and the man she loves everything?

Dona Paula de Menezes and Gaspar Fernandes, a Portuguese noblewoman and a local Goan fisherman whose relationship crosses the boundaries of class, culture, and colonial power.

Paula's father, Dom Amaral de Menezes, who loves his daughter but believes protecting the family's status-and perhaps protecting Gaspar from the colonial elite-requires destroying their relationship.

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