Initially, he contrasts with his family: his brother Toribio and his father Licurgo are countryside men while Rodrigo listens to operas, reads magazines from Paris, and drinks champagne. Rodrigo arrives to his home town of Santa Fé after studying Medicine in Porto Alegre. O Retrato ( The Portrait) is a portrait in flashback of Rodrigo Terra Cambará, a fictional member of the real government of Getúlio Vargas, as a young man. Ismália Caré ( Ismália Caré - name of one novel's character).A teiniaguá ( The Teinaguá - indigenous name of a folklore character).Um certo Capitão Rodrigo ( A Certain Captain Rodrigo).Ana Terra ( Ana Terra - name of one novel's character).There are seven chapters entitled 'O Sobrado' that frame the rest of the action and tell the story of a siege to the Terra-Cambará mansion during the Federalist Revolution.īetween these chapters, the history of the family is told chronologically, since its beginnings up to the time of the siege. The first book, entitled O Continente ( The Continent), progresses in non-linear chapters. Ultimately, the Terra-Cambará family becomes part of a land-owning elite.

It's also noticeable that the families depicted to the book (ultimately famil y, since at a point they are joined by marriage) also go through transformations, departing from poverty in the beginning of the saga, until gaining economic and political prosperity through marriage. Throughout the narrative, historical wars, revolutions, political crises and events are depicted and the characters are part or affected by them. The trilogy tells the story of a traditional family that lives through transformations of the society, so not only the story of that particular family is explored, but also the historical process that took place in that part of Brazil, as in the whole country. The saga is composed of three books, divided in total by seven volumes: Living in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, both families experience the transformations of the country. The series tells the story of two families - Terra and Cambará -, and how they evolve through 200 years of history, from 1745 to 1945. Confusingly, the first part of the series, O Continente, was translated as Time and the Wind, giving the impression that it is the whole work. O Tempo e o Vento ( Time and the Wind) is a trilogy of novels written by the Brazilian author Erico Verissimo. For the 2013 film based on this trilogy of novels, see Time and the Wind.

O Tempo e o Vento by Erico Verissimo