The story of the Amazon forests in its minutest details, told by Jose Mauro, the owner of "My Tree, the Wonderful Orange Tree", warmly from those who lost flesh, blood and memory in those forests. The hero, Ze Oroko, crosses the river on his small boat. Rosinha is not Rosinha like any other boat. She is a companion and a teacher who teaches Ze Oroko the lessons she has touched since she was a seed, so a tree, so wood becomes a boat. It allows the reader to touch the spirit of the forest with all its components, the forest and the river, a unique fictional universe, magical and located with rain, flood and sun.
We laugh and cry with this novel, we live and dream, we get lost in a strange childish universe, where exotic misery sidesteps and softness sidesteps cruelty, and every element becomes a subject for questioning and a material for storytelling!
