Cinco minutos by José Martiniano de Alencar
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"Cinco minutos" by José Martiniano de Alencar is a novel initially published in serial form in 1856. A five-minute delay causes a nameless narrator to miss his bus, leading to a fateful encounter with a veiled woman who whispers a mysterious Italian phrase. What follows is an obsessive search across continents as he pursues this elusive stranger who loves him from afar yet claims an incurable disease keeps them apart. Their romance
unfolds through chance meetings, tearful handkerchiefs, and cryptic notes left across Europe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Alencar, José Martiniano de, 1829-1877 |
|---|---|
| Title | Cinco minutos |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Minutes_(novel) |
| Credits |
Produced by Rita Farinha, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Brasiliana Digital.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 50.3 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | Portuguese |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 44540 |
| Release Date | Dec 29, 2013 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 519 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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