Ana Terra

In the eighteenth century, Terra family - father, mother and children - live in a wilderness of gaucho. Their everyday and hard, painful: strip sustenance harvesting, calculates the passage of time observing nature, facing threats of looting and pillaging. One day one of the daughters, teen Ana, finds, on the edge of a stream, a wounded indian. And the enigmatic Pedro Missioneiro, indian mestizo, brave, and owner of a sophisticated culture of letters, stories and musical arts. Hosted by the family at the beginning Ana fallen in love with Pedro, but only the prelude revulsion of passion that took hold of the girl, causing anger and desire for revenge on the brothers and father. Amidst these primitive feelings and domineering, a border is drawn, a nation and a people formed. Ana Terra is part of the saga The time and the wind, a masterpiece of Erico Verissimo. Was launched, still in the author's life as the romance part, provided that and force and their own enchantment.