Boston & New York: David R. Godine / Avon Books, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in 1940 by this Brazilian writer - The "brilliant womanizing poet Antonio Bruno" has died and his seat in the Brazilian Academy of Letters is now vacant - a colonel who had welcomed Nazi control is sure it should be his, but arrayed against him are two determined octagenarians and four remarkable women. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-879235527.