Agua
1997
First Published
3.40
Average Rating
192
Number of Pages
The year is 1920, and Luis Agua, an authorised representative of an electricity company, arrives in Vila Natal, an inhospitable village in Portugal. His objective is to convince the inhabitants of the benefits of artificial light. Before long Agua learns that the village and the castle that presides over it hide deep secrets. A noble widow in decline, a will that is both cruel and impertinent, a pioneer of aviation, an epidemic and an unexpected ending; these are the ingredients of this novel in which the themes of love, revenge, humour, death and greed come together to form an almost arithmetic narrative.
Avg Rating
3.40
Number of Ratings
40
5 STARS
13%
4 STARS
38%
3 STARS
30%
2 STARS
18%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
Eduardo Berti
Author · 8 books
Eduardo Berti (Buenos Aires; 1964); escritor y periodista argentino, hijo de un padre rumano emigrado a Argentina durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
