Pindorama: I Was Already Awake

By F. S. Dias

Before Brazil had borders, a Mby boy tries to say the name of a river. Centuries later, a young woman crosses Porto Alegre with Pindorama tattooed on her wrist.

Between a morning in 1490 and a bus ride in 2030, men and women plant, flee, work, translate, care for one another, and live with decisions made far away. Palmares, Porongos, the 1918 influenza epidemic, the building of Bras lia, and
the expulsions of the Estado Novo enter the story at the scale of an ordinary day.

Narrated by the land itself, Pindorama traces lives joined by blood, chance, objects, and acts of care, along with paths that never meet. It is a literary novel about a country before and beyond its official name, and about what remains when memory fails: a word, a gesture, a small thing passed from hand to hand.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H95CC1N9
• ISBN13: 9798187580927
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"