Lino de Albergaria - writer

Books

The Other Girl
Lino de Albergaria
Editora do Brasil
Juvenile
18 x 24 cm - 28 pages
1988

Design: Marcelo Xavier

Synopse
A mysterious place, where there are legends of Indians and of submerged cities. In a house by the lake, where she went off with Miriam and Lia (Miriam’s mother), the teenager Sara is attracted by Amaro, a sleepwalker who is wandering under a rain. Amaro’s behavior is usually unstable; it depends on whether it is rainy or sunny, day or night. One afternoon, Sara spots Amaro in the arms of a girl who is trying to pull him into the water. Sara wrestles with the other girl and watches her melt as paper. Back to the city, Amaro seems to have forgotten everything and Sara tries to learn the stories of Iaras and Mãe-d'água. She tries to get over the fact of having been rejected by Amaro, until one day when Miriam and Lia invites her to a costume party, and, in an odd situation, the same characters of that day come back, in the cold and wind, by the lake.