In The Five Seasons of Love, acclaimed Brazilian writer Joao Almino presents a compelling and sympathetic portrait of a woman whose life has not turned out as she anticipated, and whose once
audacious dreams have been replaced by half-truths, failures and frustration. To fulfill a pact made during her student days, fifty-five-year-old Ana Kauffman plans a party to celebrate the new
millennium. As old friends resurface and the countdown to the new century draws near, Ana's past undergoes a series of unexpected revisions - beginning with the arrival of Berta, the newly
minted postoperative persona of Ana's former boyfriend Norberto.Set amidst the chaos of contemporary Brasilia, a place where even the most basic human affairs - love, friendship, sex and work -
can take unlikely shapes, Ana's story is both relentlessly modern and profoundly timeless. Winner of the Casa de las Americas 2003 Literary Award, The Five Seasons of Love is an extraordinary
novel by a writer at the height of his powers.
